1ère édition numérotée sur 600 exemplaires.
Vendu avec un tirage en n.b. numérique (13×17,5cm) Signé.
Le photographe suédois a photographié son voisinage à Montreuil, la ville de la banlieue parisienne, où il s’est installé en 2017. Il a photographié tout ce qu’il voyait sans jamais quitter son quartier, portraiturant ses habitués ou parfois simplement des passants pris depuis sa fenêtre. Le résultat est proche d’un reportage en immersion de quelqu’un qui veut faire vivre son quartier à ceux qui n’y ont jamais mis les pieds ; photos en n.b. et en couleurs.
“In 2017 I moved to Montreuil, just outside of Paris. I left Smedsby, Värmland and Sweden. One week after I had installed myself in my new neighbourhood the publisher Pierre Bessard contacted me and proposed me a carte blanche for a book publication. ‘Do whatever you want. When you are done you tell me and then we print” My direct and intuitive reaction was simple. I would photograph my first years in my new surroundings. I stayed very close to my home. I did not go more than 500 meters from my studio. I made simple notes. I photographed from my window. I photographed in the streets, bars and cafés. Encounters with people. Atmospheres. Emotions. I used all different types of photographic technics; Fuji instant film, Polaroid, 135 mm, 120 mm, the phone and digital camera. I mixed B/W and colour. On the back cover of the book I wrote this text:
Moving in,
looking out.
Here it is warm
and human.
I could stay here.”
— JH Engström, Montreuil 2020
