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Stefan Bladh, "The Family"
For seven years, the Swedish photographer Stefan Bladh visited and photographed a Turkish family living in destitute circumstances. He has now self-published a selection of these pictures, some 60 in all, in a book with a foreword by Anders Petersen. The closeness of the photographer to the parents and their nine children is exceedingly clear in this selection. Intimate images such as these can only be made by photographers who place friendship and benevolence on equal footing with the interests of photography. This volume includes pictures of the nine children at work and play, portraits of the parents, scenes and a few landscapes. The majority of the pictures are in black and white but there are also a few colour photographs. Seldom have I encountered such a convincing début in recent experience. Bound in cloth and with a belly band and a tipped-in photograph on the cover, this book has a serious design and provides the pictures with enough space for the reader to become fully engaged in the story they tell.
www.stefanbladh.se/index.php?/a/the-family/
www.nzz.ch/hintergrund/tableau/stefan_bladh_the_family_1.5736133.html
07.06.2010
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