Sketch of Paris by JH Engström. Going beyond the classic imagery of Paris, award-winning Swedish photographer, JH Engström, presents a raw depiction of the capital, published by Max Ström , showing the population’s true existence beneath the alluring aesthetic surface. I thought you might be interested in featuring images from the book, as it captures twenty years in the life of the city in Engström’s startlingly bare style.
Sketch of Paris by JH Engström is produced by Max Ström www.maxstrom.se, published by Aperture, RRP £45; 2013
About The Artists
JH Engström, has lived and worked in Paris for twenty years, developing this gritty depiction of the city’s population and their normal lives. With 250 colour and black-and-white photographs taken between 1991 and 2012, Sketch of Paris is not a catalogue of classic Parisian scenes, the book instead offers a raw, but lyrical, portrayal of the artist’s misadventures, loves, and random encounters through the streets, bars, and artist lofts of Paris. The images are of normal people in ordinary moments captured with extraordinary beauty.
JH Engström was born in Karlstad, Sweden (1969) spent the majority of his early career between Sweden and France. After assisting Mario Testino in Paris and Anders Petersen in Stockholm, he has produced several acclaimed photo books, including the award-winning Trying to Dance (2004), and his work has been displayed worldwide in acclaimed galleries including Saatchi Gallery, London; The Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 1998, Engström won the Stockholm Cultural Award and in 2009, his photo book, From Back Home, won the Authors Book Award at Les Recontres d´Arles Photographie.
