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The workshop will concentrate on a very personal approach to photography. The “students”
will be asked to within themselves find the story, the core of what they are showing in their photographs. The workshop will be totally focused on content and not on technique.
Its also in the concept of the workshop that it will end in an open process rather than in a finalized work. I want to start something, not to end something….
JH Engström was born in Karlstad, Värmland, in Sweden 1969. Moves to Paris with his parents at the age of 10.
Moves back to Sweden at the age of 13 but spend alot of adolescence in Paris.
1991 he moves back to Paris and works as assistent to fashion photographer Mario Testino.
1993 he starts working as assistent to documentary photographer Anders Petersen in Stockholm.
1997 he graduates from the photography and film depertment at Gothenburg University.
1997 he also publishes his first book; ”Shelter” (Bokförlaget DN)
1998 he moves to Brooklyn, New York and starts working on the ”Trying to Dance”-project.
The year 2000 he travels throughout Europe and then moves to his native region Värmland where he continues working on the ”Trying to Dance”-project.
The book ”Trying to Dance” is published 2004 (Journal)
2004 he exhibits at Galerie VU’ and also starts working on a one-hour documentary about his friend and collegue Anders Petersen for the Swedish television. He exhibits throughout Europe.
2005 Engström has a one-manshow at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg. He is also shortlisted for the Deutshe Börse Photography Price for the ”Trying to Dance”-publication.
He starts filming his second documentary for the Swedish Television, a 30 minutes film.
His new project ”Haunts” will be exhibited at Galerie VU’ in sptember 2006. A book with the same name is also released at Steidl. 2008 Steidl releases the book CDG/JHE. JH is also represented in several anthologies such as PhotoArt by Aperture and The Photobook Part 2 by Phaidon. In 2009 he was awarded Best photobook of the year at the Arles Photofestival together with Anders Petersen for the book From Back Home
He has recieved numerous grants and awards since 1994. His work is held in collections both in Europé and USA.
He also leads workshops regulary.
JH Engström lives and works in Skåne, in the south of Sweden.
JH Engström
Monographs:
2010 Wells, Steidl
2009 La Residence, Journal
2009 From Back Home, together with Anders Petersen, Max Ström
2008 Sketch of Home, GUN
2008 CDG/JHE, Steidl
2006 Haunts, Steidl
2004 Trying to Dance, Journal.
1997 Shelter, Bokförlaget DN.
Anthologies
2009 Shoot, Rizzoli
2007 PhotoArt, Aperture/Dumont
2006 The photobook, Part two, av Martin Parr och Gerry Badger, Phaidon England
Vitamin PH, New Perspectives in Photography, Phaidon, England
Films
2008 The Social Welfare Office, together with Göran Odbratt. (52 min, Shown at
Swedish Television 2006)
2006 A Film With About Anders Petersen (52 min, Shown at Swedish Television
2006)
Bertil & Maggan.Stay or go (28 min, Shown at Swedish Television 2006)
Collections
Saatchi Gallery, London
Hasselblad Center , Gothenburg.
The Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm
The Nordic Museum in Stockholm.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Noorderlicht Photogallery
Värmlands Museum
Musée Niepce, France
Grants and awards:
2008 Grant from KW Gullers fund
2006-2010 Grant from Swedish Art Council
2005 Shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photographic Price.
Grant from The Swedish Authers Foundation.
2004 Artist in residence at Musée de Niepce, Chalon Sur Saone.
Grant from the Swedish Authers Foundation.
Grant from Hasselblad Center.
2003 Artist in residence at Contretype, Brussels.
2000 Grant from the Swedish Arts Council.
1999 Grant from The Swdish Arts Council.
1998 Stockholm Cultural award.
Grant from The Andrea Frank Foundation.
Winner of ”The photographic book of the year in Sweden ”.
Grant from the Swedish Authers Foundation.
1996 Bildhuset grant for young photographers.
Selected Solo exhibitions:
2009 From Back Home, together with Anders Petersen, Galerie VU, Paris
From Back Home, together with Anders Petersen, Värmlands Museum,
Sweden
Centre Atlantique de la Photographie, Brest, France, Trying to Dance/
Haunts
Galerie Le Lieux, Lorient, France, Trying to Dance/ Haunts
2008 GUN Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, Sketch of Home
2007 Huarte Art Center, Huarte, Spain, Tying to Dance/ Haunts
2006 Contretype, Brussels, Belgium, Je suis ou.
Milliken, Stockholm
Fotografins Hus, Haunts, Stockholm
Galerie VU, Haunts, Paris
Nantes Photfestival
2005 Hasselblad Center, Haunts, Gothenburg.
2004 Galerie VU‚, Trying to dance, Paris.
2002 The Nordic Museum , Shelter , Stockholm.
Arhoteque D’Angers, Trying to dance, Angers.
Contretype, Trying to Dance,, Brussels.
2000 Gallery F48, Entreacte, Stockholm.
Selected Group exhibitions:
2009 Winterthur Fotomuseum, Darkside II
2009 Kunsthalle Wien, Das Porträt-Fotografie als Buhne
2009 Arles Photofestival, Show curated by Nan Goldin
2008 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Darkside
2007 Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York
2006 Mois de la Photo, Paris
Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin
Contretype, ”Genre Humain”, Brussel
Fotografins Hus, ”Face a Face” Stockholm
Noorderlicht Photogallery
D-Foto, San Sebastian, Spain
2005 Milliken Gallery, Stockholm
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell , USA.
Bildhuset, Umea, ”Instable”.
Photographers Gallery, London , ”Deutsche Börse Photography Price”.
Winterthur Fotomuseum, ”Der Traum vom Ich, der Traum von der Welt”.
Deutsche Börse Group, Frankfurt ( Main ).
Gooroom project, SouthCorea
Langhans Galerie, Galerie VU, Praha.
2004 Stockholm Cultural House, ”Instable”.
2002 Stockholm Cultural House, ”Stockholm too Close”.
Gallery CFF, Stockholm , ”Inspiration Strömholm”.
Theatre des images, Nice, ”Swedish Photography”.
1998 Photographic Fair in Gothenburg.
Stockhoolm Cultural House, ”Tempo - A documentary Festival”.
With Anders Petersen at Gallery Prinsen in Stockholm.
1994 Stockholm Cultural House, ”Territory”.
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