Photographs by Simon Johansson
Editing and design: Gösta Flemming and Simon Johansson
Published by Journal Publishers
First edition 2019
Hardcover, illustrated clothbound
255 x 225 mm
132 pages, 63 black & white images
Swedish/English
Awarded “2nd Place”in the book category at Budapest International Foto Awards 2020; Shortlisted for Gomma Grant 2019-20; Silver Award in the category Book/Documentary at PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2020
In his third book Simon Johansson focus on children and remember his own childhood. This is a black and white photo collection taken between 2002 and 2019 in Stockholm, Öland, Kivik, Ostersund (SE), Bucharest (RO), Rome (IT) and Ciudad Colón (CRC).
“My father wakes me at three o’clock in the morning as agreed. I’m not sure what’s most exciting, to be up watching TV in the middle of the night, or that man is landing on the moon. No matter which, the grainy black-and-white television image of Neil Armstrong in a space suit floating down the ladder has stuck on my retina. While man takes the giant leap, 380 439 kilometres from our living room, I take a small step to expand my very own universe.”