JOHANSSON, Gerry

About Swedish photographer, Gerry JOHANSSON (b. 1945, in Örebro)

Gerry JOHANSSON's interest in photography began to develop as a teenager. After a stay in New York for several years in the early 1960s, he first studied graphic design at the School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, Sweden. After graduating in 1969, he worked as a graphic designer for 15 years before dedicating himself completely to photography in the mid-1980s. In his grayscale images, composed down to the last detail, he visualizes the cultural differences between the locations portrayed. For decades he has traveled to countless places all over the world, some relatively close like the Swedish Kvidinge, others far away like the Mongolian Ulan Bator or the city of Pontiac in the Midwestern United States. His independent visual language is the central thread that connects the places aesthetically with each other. At the same time, however, it also represents the key that enables the viewer to decode the cultural differences in what is shown." (slightly adapted text, © Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, 2020)

Photo books by Gerry JOHANSSON (a selection)

'Amerikabilder' (1998); 'Sverige' (2005); 'Kvidinge' (2007); 'Ulan Bator' (2009); 'Dalen' (2010); 'Pontiac' (2011); 'Öglunpda' (2012); 'Hattfabriken' (2012); 'Deutschland' (2012); 'Antarctic' (2014); 'Ravenna' (2016); 'Tyre Choice' (2017); 'America Revisited' (2018); 'American Winter' (2018); 'Härryda Kommun' (2018); 'Halland' (2019); 'Boras' (2019); 'Ehime' (2020); 'Lalendorf und Kleber' (2020); 'Esker' (2021); 'Verso Nord' (2021, mit Guido GUIDI); 'Spanish Summer' (2021)