Splinter is a photographic book about people living in constant disorder, understood both literally and metaphorically, and about the feeling of uneasiness that their lives provoked.

The story took place in a house that had turned into a kind of warehouse - a space packed with things, whether working or not. It seemed that the constant change gave meaning to that reality. Yet its inhabitants apparently refused to accept that only order is legitimate in today’s world.

Pictures documenting the house were taken in the course of a year. What had been changing during this time was not only the place being in the state of a perpetual transformation but also the feelings accompanying the process of documenting this world. A belief that everyone can live however they want, even in a completely disorganized space was followed by anxiety that this visual and material chaos would lead to a catastrophe. And yet both turned out to be real.

• Volume: 68 pages
• Format: 215 mm x 266 mm
• Printing: Offset
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language/s: English
• Design: Ania Nalecka-Milach
• Edition: 500
• Published: 2024
• ISBN: 978-91-989021-3-6
• https://elapolkowska.com/ 

The book Lunar Cycles departs from family and family relations. It’s a story about twosomeness, loneliness, illness and grief. Lotta Törnroth have been photographing her parents since her father fell ill in 2005. On their own but also together with Törnroth. Her father passed in 2017, during his last twelve years he allowed her to photograph him without really questioning her intentions. With time it was more like they made the photographs together. After the father's death she continued photographing her mother, to handle the grief.

When her father was dying Törnroth was at an island farthest out in the archipelago of Åland. Her mother called and asked her to come home in time to say goodbye. The night before going home was among the worst in Törnroths life, and to keep the thoughts at bay she photographed the full moon which was spectacular in the starry October night sky. She has since then revisited that moon every following year as a comfort.

• Volume: 80 pages
• Format: 165 x 210 mm
• Printing: Offset
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language/s: Swedish, English
• Design: Johanna Sevholt, Lotta Törnroth
• Edition: 600
• Published: 2024
• ISBN: 978-91-985845-7-8
• www.lottatornroth.com

313 - alluding to Detroit’s postal code and local nickname - documents a city in constant change. In recent decades, Detroit has faced significant economic and social challenges. With its rich Black history, the city continually reformulates its narrative and heritage. Eric Magassa captures abstractions in the urban space, focusing on historical traces and abstract painting in an expanded field.

• Volume: 112 pages
• Format: 210 x 270 mm
• Printing: Offset
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language/s: -
• Design: Maryam Fanni
• Edition: 300
• Published: 2023
• ISBN: 978-91-985845-8-5
• www.magassa.com

Paler Ash is a collaboration by Emanuel Cederqvist and Sean Gardiner. It traces the changing fate of the ash tree following the onset of ash dieback, a fungal disease currently spreading across Europe, posing a serious threat to the species future. The work documents trees between Öland, Sweden (where dieback was reliably identified in 2003) and Dorset, England (where it was recorded in 2013). These locations – a relative east and west of the geographic range of the tree – act as vague mirrors of each other, reflecting an approximate past or impending future. 

Although the origins of dieback remain somewhat ambiguous at present – its spread the result of a combination of things, some arguably natural, others probably avoidable – it is difficult not to see its onset as somehow characteristic of the time we are living through. The work is intended as both document and elegy, simultaneously paying testament to the presence of the tree while hinting at the tangible absence of its loss.

• Volume: 136 pages
• Format 240 X 290 mm
• Printing: 2+2 Duotone Hybrid
• Print Technology Offset
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language/s: Swedish / English
• Design: Eric Palmér
• Translator: Hans- Jacob Nilsson
• Edition: 600
• Published: Blackbook Publications
• ISBN: 9789198584592
• https://emanuelcederqvist.se
• https://seangardiner.uk/

By accident I rediscovered a twice-exposed film that has been sitting in one of my negative binders for over 20 years. The frames from the first exposure show scenes from a trip to Viborg my brother did in his teens and snaps from what appears to be a house party. In the second overlying exposure, I myself am in two photos, but otherwise the subjects and the photographer are still something of a mystery. A cat appears several times but neither I nor my brother recognize it. A few elderly people are clearly visible but who they are remains an enigma, and in our living room an unknown, stern looking young man is standing behind a sofa.

• Volume: 40 pages

• Format: 148 X 210 mm

• Printing: Hybrid printing

• Binding: Staple bound

• Languages: Swedish / English

• Design: Rikard Laving

• Edition: 300

• Published: 2023

• ISBN 978-91-989021-0-5

• Artist website

The Ditch recounts the story of a forgotten defence line built on Öland, a small island on the east coast of Sweden, during the Second World War. The line was intended to act as an obstacle for tanks, splitting the island into two parts near the village of Föra. In the book, Cederqvist’s images are combined with documentary material from the Swedish War Archive, records which remained classified until the 1980’s.

Work on the defence line was based on a number of strange assumptions and it was not long before things started to go wrong: the ground swallowed more water than planned, the pump was undersized and costs skyrocketed. Eventually, the leader of the project, Raoul Thörnberg, was court-martialed. The so-called ‘Föralinjen’ came to represent a notable failure for the Swedish military, and something they would prefer to forget. Traces of the project – reminiscent of an abandoned piece of land art – remain visible in the landscape.

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• Volume: 80 pages
• Format 190 X 230 mm
• Printing: 2+2 Duotone Hybrid Print Technology Offset
  
• Silk screen printed cover.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language/s: Swedish / English
• Design: Emanuel Cederqvist and Eric Palmér
• Edition: 600
• Published: 2021
• ISBN 978-91-985844-5-5
• Artist website

The images are based on a dream where impaired vision and a shattered lens make the world blurred. But through old photo albums the dream gets a real anchor. Dream and reality are mixed together and become difficult to distinguish from each other. The physical composition of the book encourages the reader to create their own story.

• Volume: 24 pages
• Format: 210 X 280 mm
• Printing: Digital and color offset
• Binding: Loose sheets
• Language/s: Swedish / English
• Design: Rikard Laving & Olle Halvars
• Edition: 300
• Published: 2021
• ISBN: 978-91-985844-4-2
• Artist website

• Volume: 64 PAGES
• Format: 135 X 210 MM
• Printing: 5+5 HYBRID PRINT TECHNOLOGY OFFSET
• Binding: CLOTHBOUND HARDCOVER
• Languages: Swedish / English
• Design: Studio Moss
• Edition: 500
• Published: 2020
• ISBN: 978-91-985844-4-8
• https://e-t.se/

• Volume: 32 pages
• Format: 250 x 280 mm
• Printing: Offset
• Languages: Swedish / English
• Design: Studio Moss
• Edition: 500
• Published: 2020
• ISBN: 978-91-985844-0-0
• www.marilagerquist.se

• Volume: 144 pages
• Format: 215 mm x 267
• Printing: Offset
  Binding: threaded hardband
• Languages: Swedish / English
• Design: Patric Leo
• Edition: 533
• Spec.edition: 20 in box with print
• Published: 2019
• ISBN: 978-91-982555-9-1
• www.agnetaekman.se

The Margin of Error is based on two different archive materials that both depict Sarek's National Park in north of Sweden. The pictures are partly Emanuel Cederqvist and partly Axel Hamberg's 100 year old photographs from a relatively unknown archive. As a landscape, Sarek hasn’t changed considerably since the last ice age around 10,000 years ago. The difference between the photographs is almost indistinguishable. It’s only the camera and the position in the landscape that set the pictures apart.

Cederqvist is interested in how the camera was seen as an instrument, a tool to measure, and take control over the nature. His own approach to hiking, and nature in itself, is more an opportunity to let go of control - to be open to the unpredictable.

As a starting point for this project Cederqvist found a story about an weather observer, also named Emanuel, who worked at a weather station in Sarek. In september 1917 the observer disappeared in a snow storm and his body has still not been found.

• Volume: 136 pages
• Format: 200 X 240 mm
• Printing: 4+4 Hybrid Print Technology Offset
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language/s: Swedish / English
• Design: Studio Moss
• Edition: 600
• Published: 2019
• ISBN: 978-91-982555-8-4
• Artist website

Imaginary Islands takes place on Greenland, in the capital Nuuk where Törnroth is artist-in-residence. The sublime beautiful sea that surrounds the island has allured her to visit. There are many people who have given their life to the sea on Greenland, but there are also many who are dependent on what the sea has to give for survival. In her photographs she expose herself to the ocean. Early mornings, in icing cold and with long photographic exposures she stands and acts with the light from a flashlight as a communicator between the sea and the viewer.

The paintings in the book are made with water from the Labrador Sea that Törnroth has frozen down in small portions. Then she lets them melt on aquarelle paper together with blue gouache. It takes approximately three hours for two decilitres of seawater to melt, and then additionally three days before the water has fully dried onto the paper. The water and the salt from the ocean together with the blue colour shapes a form that can be seen as an island from above.

• Volume: 104 pages
• Format: 170 x 240 mm
• Printing: Full colour offset
• Binding: Clothbound hardcover
• Language/s: Swedish/English
• Design: Dennis Hankvist
• Published: 2019
• Edition: 300
• ISBN:  978-91-982555-7-7

Lukas/Markus is the result of a photographic project spanning over a decade. Located in the Western Cemetery in Gothenburg, architect Sven Brolid's two mirrored chapels Saint Lukas and Saint Markus were designed and built in the 1960:s, the era when Swedish functionalism was at its very peak. A stark silhouette in the otherwise sparsely built-up cemetery, the building does little to blend in with its surroundings. However, there is harmony to be found in the fine tuned correspondence between the materials and in the considered, geometrical features giving the building its characteristic appearance.

During a walk through the cemetery, Kalle Sanner discovered the building and immediately felt a connection to it, prompting him to start exploring the site. As time went by, Sanner continued to return to the building with his large format camera and the project grew along with Sanner's interest in the building and its architect.

• Volume: 82 pages
• Format: 200 x 223 mm
• Printing: 4+4 Hybrid Print Technology Offset
• Binding: Clothbound hardcover
• Languages: Swedish / English
• Design: Lundgren+Lindqvist
• Edition: 300
• Published: 2018
• ISBN: 978-91-983957-1-6
• Artist website
• This book is available as a special edition of 30 copies, divided into three sets of 10, including a signed copy of the book housed in a handmade clamshell box with one of three c-prints, signed and numbered by the photographer.
  Price €150. Please email info@blackbookpublications.com for requests.

The book contains abstract photograms made using only light, time and photographic paper. The work circles around time and grief.

• Volume: 44 pages
• Format: 210 X 270 mm
• Printing: Digital and Color Offset
• Binding: Staple bound
• Language/s: Swedish / English
• Design: Maryam Fanni
• Edition: 300
• Published: 2018
• ISBN: 978-91-982555-4-6
• Artist website

A photobook about the body, self-image, performativity and gaze - a queer manifesto for the female body by Casia Bromberg. 

My body’s so juicy! It can be naked, it can be dressed in silk or leather. It needs a lot of space because it is so juicy. My body has different smells, it can smell differently, taste differently. Many different fluids can come out of it. And at the same time that it does all these things, it also carries so many feelings within. My body’s elastic, it can make all sorts of moves, and transform if I want it to transform. It needs no criticism, ‘cause there’s only one like it, it’s a unique example. One edition, not for sale.

Artist Casia Bromberg has been creating work for more than a decade by working with self portraits and staging her body in front of her camera. 

Volume: 64 pages
Format: 210 x 220 mm
Printing: Full Colour offset
Language/s: English
Published: 2017
Edition: 500
ISBN: 9789198255539
Artist Website

'Passing Through a Darkroom' by Annika von Hauswolff is a staple-bound artist book, signed with both signature and fingerprint by the artist. The book was made for the exhibition 'Revision' at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg and released in an edition of 500 copies.

• Published: 2017
• Edition: 500 
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• Volume: 34 pages
• Format: 180 x 170 mm
• Printing: Full Color Offset
• Binding: Stapled
• Language/s: English
• Design: Simon Berg
• Edition: 500
• Published: 2017
• ISBN: 978-91-982555-1-5
• Artist website

It is right in the beginning of August and terribly hot. The challenges get tougher and more important to win. One night a short distance race end in an accident with a trashed hand and during the night suspicion lead to paranoia and an old friendship is put to the test. Kalle Sanner’s Sprinten is a photographic novel with nine black and white images printed offset in a bleeding format on thin, uncoated paper.

• Volume: 20 pages
• Format: 150 x 220 mm
• Printing: Black & white offset
• Binding: Staple Bound
• Language/s: Swedish
• Edition: 300
• Published: 2009
• ISBN 978-91-978317-0-3
• Artist website
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An intense portrayal of a seemingly meaningless everyday life. But these intimate close-ups show us something other than just eternally recurring routines. For out of the cracks from the civilized facade seeps another story forward, the story of a life where every desire is dictated by nature, a nature which tries everything to escape their own terms.

• Volume: 44 pages
• Format: 240 x 160 mm
• Printing: Full color offset
• Binding: Perfect Bound
• Language/s: Swedish
• Design: Richard Wikström, Simon Berg
• Edition: 400
• Published: 2009
• ISBN 978-91-978317-1-0
• Artist website

It is the gaps that interests me, the film is looping caught in the same act. In the decision you phase out the past to begin dealing with the future, a sentence I found in a book about Hannah Arendt. The camera trigger symbolizes the moment by materializing the decision; to decide, release and create an image. In one of my series I have compared this choice with the the choices we make in life, in our everyday life. These decisions are not without consequence, neither for ourself or our surroundings. I become encouraged and find hope reading Arendt, because she gives us the initiative, and thereby also the possibility to act. From under the carpet I decide my next move.

• Volume: 40 pages
• Format: 175 x 210 mm
• Printing: Full color offset
• Binding: Perfect Bound
• Language/s: Swedish
• Design: Och Studio
• Edition: 500
• Published: 2010
• ISBN 978-87-993274-0-9
• Artist website

Ways to describe gathers three photographic series by Linda Hofvander and is put together in collaboration with the graphic designer Magda Lipka Falck. The text in the book, What is at stake?, is in both Swedish and English.

Linda Hofvander is a young Swedish artist working with photography and film. In her works, the materials used and the specific rules of the photographic image making, are in the centre to create a choreography, and provide the foundation for her images. The bare and simple motifs are loaded by a different way of seeing – where a magic occurs in the factual.

• Volume: 72 pages
• Format: 220 x 165 mm
• Printing: Full color offset
• Binding: Perfect Bound
• Language/s: Swedish, English
• Design: Magda Lipka Falck
• Edition: 300
• Published: 2010
• ISBN 978-91-976057-5-5
• Artist website

"The photographs of Kalle Sanner are contemplative studies of light and its constant transformation. The act of photographing is more central than the subject and location.

There is a painterly quality in Kalle Sanner photographs and the darkest ones recall Mark Rothko’s saturated and rust-red images. He dwells not in the gloom but allows light to guide him through the rooms. He observes how the winter sun’s raking light induces the walls’ surfaces and then lets his eyes wander out the window until the image dissolves into a white cloud. In the images, he focuses on details which, when illuminated, receive a monumental character. His subtle observations of geometric shapes – where tall towers emerge from the shadows – creates a sense of vertigo. If photographs are drawings in light you could say that Kalle Sanner’s portrait of light actually captures the essence of photography."

– Excerpts from the exhibition catalouge by Dragana Vujanovic, Curator Hasselblad Foundation

• Volume: 72 pages
• Format: 225 x 170 mm
• Printing: Full Colour offset
• Binding: hand-sewn
• Language/s: No text included
• Design: Och Studio
• Edition: 300
• Published: 2010
• ISBN 978-91-978317-2-7
• Artist Website

The realistic photography of Simon Berg let us view the world from a more physical perspective than we are used to. The claustrophobic close ups of body parts and everyday items break the boundaries of our vision and penetrate deep in to the objects themselves. Like the foot, which can not be viewed as a foot any longer since the focus is on the details; the crooked toes pressed to the floor, the blood filled skin’s pattern and the sharp nails slowly pressing themselves out of the flesh.

But ”(III)” is also a personal project which revelovement around objects is characterized by melancholy as well as a longing for what used to be. It is closed and stuffy and the scene on which this asocial realism take place is surrounded by a compact darkness that does not let the eyes escape.

Stiched cardboard box with cover stained by the artist. 42 coated full-colour offset prints lifted with ribbon.

• Volume: 72 pages
• Format: 172 x 220 mm
• Printing: Full Color Offset
• Binding: Loose-leaf, in corner stapled box
• Language/s: No text included
• Design: Simon Berg
• Edition: 200
• Published: 2012
• ISBN: 978-91-978317-3-4
• Artist website
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"The photographs of Kalle Sanner are contemplative studies of light and its constant transformation. The act of photographing is more central than the subject and location.

There is a painterly quality in Kalle Sanner photographs and the darkest ones recall Mark Rothko’s saturated and rust-red images. He dwells not in the gloom but allows light to guide him through the rooms. He observes how the winter sun’s raking light induces the walls’ surfaces and then lets his eyes wander out the window until the image dissolves into a white cloud. In the images, he focuses on details which, when illuminated, receive a monumental character. His subtle observations of geometric shapes – where tall towers emerge from the shadows – creates a sense of vertigo. If photographs are drawings in light you could say that Kalle Sanner’s portrait of light actually captures the essence of photography."

– Excerpts from the exhibition catalouge by Dragana Vujanovic, Curator Hasselblad Foundation

Eight pages full-colour offset print.

• 297x420 mm
• Edition: 1000
• Published: 2012
• ISBN: 978-91-978317-4-1
• www.kallesanner.se

Emanuel Cederqvist's photo book "Det som blir kvar" is a moving documentation of what is left of an estate once its contents are divided up and sold off. His photos captures the intermediary stage between one life and the next, whilst retaining the objective gaze of administration.

"I have been a photographer for real estate agents in Gothenburg since 2009. The homes I visit are often clean, styled and the personal belongings are removed, nevertheless what is private is clearly visible.

There are many different reasons why a house will be sold. Often it’s because someone’s life situation has changed radically. Separations, births or death.

There is something extremely sad with the homes where someone has died. There is always a certain sentiment in the air. What remains is a collection of photos from the estates where someone just died, taken between 2009 and 2013."

- Emanuel Cederqvist

• Volume: 48 pages
• Format 215 x 265 mm
• Printing: Full color offset
• Binding: Hardbound
• Language/s: Swedish
• Design: Studio Moss
• Edition: 400
• Published: 2014
• ISBN 978-91-978317-9-6
• Artist website

• Title: Variables
• Images: Linda Hofvander
• Text: Linus Gratte
• Design: Magda Lipka Falck
• Languages: English and French
• Pages: 32 
• Publisher: r a k e t a press
• Edition: 100 
• Size: 185x145mm

"In her series To Wait for the Inevitable: Narratives from the Sea, Lotta Törnroth has weaved a story from that what life is made of and from what we carry inside us. With a delicate dramatic composition, the photographer provides us with opposing pairs: the destructive and the constructive, the worrying and the consoling, darkness and light."

–  Excerpts from the foreword by Jenny Maria Nilsson, Writer.

Lotta Törnroth is interested by the power of the sea and the relation between man and the sea. Photography, text and sculpture form a story about the potential catastrophe at sea. What happens within us, just waiting for it to happen and the effect it has after the catastrophe has happened. Being torn between hope and despair, but also the beauty of not giving up. The work is a three-part story including photographs and essays.

• Volume: 86 pages
• Format: 145mm x 190mm
• Printing: Full color offset
• Binding: Softcover
• Language/s: Swedish, English
• Design: Johanna Sevholt
• Edition: 200
• Published: 2014
• ISBN: 978-91-978317-8-9
• Artist website
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This fictive story takes place in a store where the customers are being helped over the counter. The employees organize the goods for the customers, using utilities like carts and packing lists. At first sight it might look rigid, but in the encounters between the customers and employees, there are humorous and poetic elements. The store exists as a closed space with its own rules and specific knowledge, but sometimes another reality cuts through, a political and social spark that makes everything in the store appear in a new way.

• Volume: 80 pages
• Format: 135 x 220 mm
• Printing: Full Color Offset
• Binding: Soft cover
• Language/s: Swedish
• Edition: 200 
• Published: 2015 
• ISBN: 978-91-978317-7-2
• Artist website

Revisiting places that once held a magical element during her childhood, Thor uses her elegant attention to light and detail to provide a visual narrative that draws the viewer into a place where time has stopped and all that remains is the wistful vision she has presented. With a beautifully tragic foreword by the artist, the scene is set for the viewer to explore the four sections of images. Through her pairing of images, a true sense of place is formed where the viewer can’t help but form an attachment to it’s structures, objects, and landscapes.

Shooting over the course of eight years, it is also a document of time and seasons passing, and a meditation over the Swedish landscape.

• Volume: 72 pages
• Format: 190 x 220 mm
• Printing: Full color offset
• Binding: Hardcover with foilstamp
• Language/s: English
• Design: Kirsty Bruce
• Edition: 500
• Published: 2015
• ISBN: 978-91-982555-0-8
• Artist website