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'Photo book 'Chasing Summer. Journal from a Global Motorcycle Journey' maps a two-year journey in which the photographer ,Ingvar KENNE, set out westward from his hometown in Sweden on motorcycle, later to ride back via the east to the same point.
The cultural displacement achieved -nomadic, watchful, seeking - is both a liberation and a luxury.
The visual documentation are a series of individuals portrayed in their immediate context, as well as observational suggestions of a sense of place. Presentation is almost taxonomic in its format, which render a frank quality in the subjects relationship to the camera.
'One of the paradoxes of otherness is that in travel each conceives the other to be foreign' (© Paul Theroux)
The photo book 'Chasing Summer. Journal from a Global Motorcycle Journey' offers hope and encourages all yearning travellers: the desire for human connection across and beyond difference." (publisher's note, © Bird Press, 2004)
About the photographer, Ingvar KENNE:
Ingvar KENNE studied for his BA in Photography at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
In 1992, KENNE had both: his first solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in Borås, Sweden and published his first monograph, 'On The Side'.
His 2nd photo book 'Chasing Summer', for which Paul Theroux wrote the foreword, was the culmination of a two and a half year motorcycle trip around the world.
He has been a regular contributor to Colors Magazine and for several years worked with editors Oliver CHANARIN & Adam BROOMBERG.
At the 2005 Cannes Lions festival, KENNE was selected for inclusion in New Photographers – The Hottest Talent of Tomorrow.
His work has been exhibited internationally including in England; France; Spain; Sweden; Italy; USA and Australia and he is recipient of several Fellowship Grants from the Arts Council of Sweden.
In 2009 he won the 'National Photographic Portrait Prize' at the National Portrait Gallery, Australia. In 2012 his show and book launch, CITIZEN, opened at the NPG. Kenne’s 4th book The Hedgehog and the Foxes was published in 2015 and he is currently finishing The Ball, due for release in 2018 by Journal, Sweden.
Ingvar KENNE is represented by The POOL Collective in Sydney and Snyder Represents in New York and divides his time between the two cities.
The cultural displacement achieved -nomadic, watchful, seeking - is both a liberation and a luxury.
The visual documentation are a series of individuals portrayed in their immediate context, as well as observational suggestions of a sense of place. Presentation is almost taxonomic in its format, which render a frank quality in the subjects relationship to the camera.
'One of the paradoxes of otherness is that in travel each conceives the other to be foreign' (© Paul Theroux)
The photo book 'Chasing Summer. Journal from a Global Motorcycle Journey' offers hope and encourages all yearning travellers: the desire for human connection across and beyond difference." (publisher's note, © Bird Press, 2004)
About the photographer, Ingvar KENNE:
Ingvar KENNE studied for his BA in Photography at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
In 1992, KENNE had both: his first solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in Borås, Sweden and published his first monograph, 'On The Side'.
His 2nd photo book 'Chasing Summer', for which Paul Theroux wrote the foreword, was the culmination of a two and a half year motorcycle trip around the world.
He has been a regular contributor to Colors Magazine and for several years worked with editors Oliver CHANARIN & Adam BROOMBERG.
At the 2005 Cannes Lions festival, KENNE was selected for inclusion in New Photographers – The Hottest Talent of Tomorrow.
His work has been exhibited internationally including in England; France; Spain; Sweden; Italy; USA and Australia and he is recipient of several Fellowship Grants from the Arts Council of Sweden.
In 2009 he won the 'National Photographic Portrait Prize' at the National Portrait Gallery, Australia. In 2012 his show and book launch, CITIZEN, opened at the NPG. Kenne’s 4th book The Hedgehog and the Foxes was published in 2015 and he is currently finishing The Ball, due for release in 2018 by Journal, Sweden.
Ingvar KENNE is represented by The POOL Collective in Sydney and Snyder Represents in New York and divides his time between the two cities.
- Format
- Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 27 x 2 cm., 108 pp., 82 color ills., 900 gr., text language: English