HOLLOW (LIMITED EDT OF 15 copies)

Martin Bogren
HOLLOW (LIMITED EDT OF 15 copies)

Photographs: Martin Bogren

Text: Caroline Benichou

Publisher: self published

36 pages

Pictures: 15

Year: 2019

Comments: Handmade book, 71 x57cm, handsewn with japanese binding, printed on Fine Art lightweight, toned paper. Limited edition of 15 copies signed by Martin Bogren.

Hollow (2008-2018)

During his youth, the Swedish photographer Martin Bogren learnt to cope with the long Swedish winters and lack of daylight. He describes it as a ‘state of waiting’. Bogren’s series HOLLOW sketches his personal, subjective experience of this period, which takes place in a figurative winter landscape, somewhere in Northern Europe. The winter levels off human emotions and brings people into a state of slumber, a form of loneliness which is something in between desire and waiting. It is a comfortable emptiness, says Bogren, while we wait – for something that must start or rather must end.