Lars
Tunbjork is a Swedish photographer. Born in 1956 in Boras. Lives
in Stockholm.
Whether
creating an acid portrait of Sweden, representing the nightmarish
world of business offices, tapping into the desolate uniformity of
petrified, petit-bourgeois neighbourhoods, examining the state of
marginalised peoples in a nation praised for its system of social
protection, or exploring the strangeness of a town on the cusp of the
Arctic Circle, Lars Tunbjörk has totally forgotten his black and
white beginnings.
All
his energy is now devoted to the exploration of colour, which he
approaches in the style of 1970’s American photographers. This is
his starting point for questioning the world, a series of
interrogations more than observations, which he develops without
pessimism but with an undeniable affliction softened by a biting
humour. Over time, his approach has become radicalised and purified
by being less and less anecdotal. Consequentially, his series no
longer represents characters but rather the often absurd track of
their presence and their actions.
Lars
Tunbjörk exhibits his work all over the world (Germany, Russia,
Island, England, Sweden, Japan, France…). In 2009 he took part in
the PhotoPhnomPenh Festival in Cambodia, during which some of his
photographs were exhibited in order to represent Sweden. The latest
exhibition took place in Toulouse in 2013, where Lars Tunbjörk
presented I Love Boras, Office and Vinter.
His
works belong to the collections of museums like the Museum of Modern
Art in New York and in Stockholm, the Centre Pompidou and the Maison
Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Museet for Fotokunst in
Denmark or the Fotomuseet in Norway.
His photographic series were combined in several books like, amongst others, Office published by the Journal Editions in 2002, Home, published by the Steidl Editions in 2003, Vinter, copublished with the Musée d’Art Moderne de Stockholm by the Steidl Editions in 2007, I Love Boras, published by the Steidl Editions in 2007, or Every Day, published by the Diaphane Editions in 2012, where the photographer explores the city of Beauvais in Picardie.
His photographic series were combined in several books like, amongst others, Office published by the Journal Editions in 2002, Home, published by the Steidl Editions in 2003, Vinter, copublished with the Musée d’Art Moderne de Stockholm by the Steidl Editions in 2007, I Love Boras, published by the Steidl Editions in 2007, or Every Day, published by the Diaphane Editions in 2012, where the photographer explores the city of Beauvais in Picardie.
His
most recent work is Going Mobile (2014), where he documents the
populations in the United States who chose to live in mobile-homes.
