CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/27/2016

JH Engström: Tout va Bien

Featured image is reproduced from Tout va Bien, Swedish photographer JH Engström's dark, poetic and yet supremely hopeful fifteenth artist's book, published by Aperture. A sort of self-portrait through the people and places of his home—including the flora and fauna, his twins (and their delivery, and afterbirth) and other evocative, sometimes shadowy figures, places and abstract intimacies—this body of work was honored with a 2015 Leica award. Engström writes, "Settled between the forest, fields, and lakes I watch my children grow up here. Time and doubt are my most precious tools. Thinking of truth as submissive to both silence and language. I realize my photographs are my shelter, more than anything. It's later now.