Contemporary Photographer - JH ENGSTRÖM - BIOGRAPHY

JH Engström was born in 1969 in Karlstad, Sweden. Although he grew up in Sweden he spent a lot of time in Paris and France while growing up. In1997 he graduated from the Photography and Film Department at Gothenburg University and published his first book called Shelter (Bokförlaget DN, 1997). He moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1998 to work on a book called Trying to Dance, and returned home to Engstrom to complete the project in 2001. In addition to photography he is involved in film making. He currently lives between Paris, Stockholm and Östra Ämtervik where he continues to exhibit his work internationally.
I chose his work based on a book he created called From Back Home (together with Anders Petersen, Max Ström in 2009). The photographs are varied and make you feel as if you have truly returned home to the ordinary everyday life that is reality. He received the 2009 Author Book award at "Les Recontres d´Arles Photographie" for From Back Home.