Björn Larsson: A Year in Sweden [signed]

Joyrides, car fires and places of slaughter: Cars in a Swedish landscape, more or less stranded outside the infrastructure of roads and in to nature. Photographs are handcoloured by Maha Keml, Cairo. More than 100 photographs of vandalized car wrecks pass through in Björn Larsson’s new book with the subtitle “Joyrides, Car Fires and Places of Slaughter”. Abandoned, they stand in the middle of the city or on solitary country roads, handed over to spare parts pickers and as relics of an industrial era in transformation. The pictures are the result of Björn Larsson having the Egyptian hand colorist Maha Kamel freely read and color his black and white photographs. The result is special. The title of the book is also a truth with modification. The pictures are taken 1999-2016 but in the book presented seasonally.