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"This is a photo book. I made it because I feel I dont belong. I feel a sense of loss, and I feel that time is short. I struggle against apathy. Ive experienced this throughout my life, but never managed to put it into words. This is why I've taken these pictures." (Christina Ottosson ÖYGARDEN)
'If I need you' is a touching book. The author herself describes in a text her childhood and her kinship, which made her the man who is her today. And so the book consists of archival material and self-made photographs, interiors, portraits, self-portraits, and at the end a fairly impressive text by Linda BOSTRÖM KNAUSGARD in English, which once again takes in words, what the photographer herself couldn't pronounce and thus has made this photo book. Highly recommended!
Christina's debut book, 'If I needed you / Om jag behövde dig', was chosen for the price Svensk Bokkonst 2015.
"'If I needed you' consists of twenty-five black and white photographs, taken during the years 2003 to 2012 and also includes seven poems by Linda Boström Knausgård in Swedish, and with English translation." (publisher's note)
"It's not sorrow talking in me Not joy It's me that's talking What do you know of the weight of a mother's soul The coverlet she was lying on Is still lying there Longing cannot be shrugged of Cannot be put aside Neither can the joy over my sun Be put aside What do you know of this furious bliss" (Linda BOSTRÖM KNAUSGARD)
In Swedish:
"Detta är en fotobok. Jag har gjort den för att jag inte känner tillhörighet. Jag känner saknad och att tiden är knapp. Jag kämpar mot resignationen. Detta har jag burit på under hela mitt liv, men aldrig lyckats sätta ord på. Därför har jag tagit dessa bilder." (Christina OTTOSON ÖYGARDEN
Om jag behövde dig består av tjugofem svartvita fotografier, tagna under åren 2003 till 2012, och innehåller också sju dikter av Linda Boström Knausgård."
About the photographer, Christina OTTOSSON ÖYGARDEN (*1971 in Uppsala, SE):
Christina OTTOSSON ÖYGARDEN is active as a photographer, living in the Österlen area in the south of Sweden. (...)
She has photographed many appreciated portraits. In striving of authenticity, she prefers to work in existing environments and with natural light.
Among the works carried out include cover image of Karl Ove KNAUSGåRD's Min Kamp series, as well as Sophie ZELMANI's album Everywhere.
She studied the photographic craft at the lab of photographers Thomas WåGSTRÖM and Anders PETERSEN in Stockholm. She has also worked as a photographer's assistant at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.
'If I need you' is a touching book. The author herself describes in a text her childhood and her kinship, which made her the man who is her today. And so the book consists of archival material and self-made photographs, interiors, portraits, self-portraits, and at the end a fairly impressive text by Linda BOSTRÖM KNAUSGARD in English, which once again takes in words, what the photographer herself couldn't pronounce and thus has made this photo book. Highly recommended!
Christina's debut book, 'If I needed you / Om jag behövde dig', was chosen for the price Svensk Bokkonst 2015.
"'If I needed you' consists of twenty-five black and white photographs, taken during the years 2003 to 2012 and also includes seven poems by Linda Boström Knausgård in Swedish, and with English translation." (publisher's note)
"It's not sorrow talking in me Not joy It's me that's talking What do you know of the weight of a mother's soul The coverlet she was lying on Is still lying there Longing cannot be shrugged of Cannot be put aside Neither can the joy over my sun Be put aside What do you know of this furious bliss" (Linda BOSTRÖM KNAUSGARD)
In Swedish:
"Detta är en fotobok. Jag har gjort den för att jag inte känner tillhörighet. Jag känner saknad och att tiden är knapp. Jag kämpar mot resignationen. Detta har jag burit på under hela mitt liv, men aldrig lyckats sätta ord på. Därför har jag tagit dessa bilder." (Christina OTTOSON ÖYGARDEN
Om jag behövde dig består av tjugofem svartvita fotografier, tagna under åren 2003 till 2012, och innehåller också sju dikter av Linda Boström Knausgård."
About the photographer, Christina OTTOSSON ÖYGARDEN (*1971 in Uppsala, SE):
Christina OTTOSSON ÖYGARDEN is active as a photographer, living in the Österlen area in the south of Sweden. (...)
She has photographed many appreciated portraits. In striving of authenticity, she prefers to work in existing environments and with natural light.
Among the works carried out include cover image of Karl Ove KNAUSGåRD's Min Kamp series, as well as Sophie ZELMANI's album Everywhere.
She studied the photographic craft at the lab of photographers Thomas WåGSTRÖM and Anders PETERSEN in Stockholm. She has also worked as a photographer's assistant at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.
- Book design
- Patric LEO
- Format
- HC with dust jacket, approx. 26 x 30 x 2 cm., 72 pp., 25 b/w ills., bilingual: Swedish / English