Lars Tunbjörk │ Home / Country beside itself

Reykjavík Museum of Photography

The exhibition constitutes works from the series_ Landet utom sig/Country beside itself _and _Hem/Home_, which are parts of a trilogy that began with the already classic book _Landet utom sig (Country Beside Itself,_ 1993). In this project Lars Tunbjörk investigates the reality of our time as it has taken shape in working life and leisure, in public space, and now finally also in the home. 

In a way unparalleled in the work of any other Swedish photographer, Tunbjörk has studied and photographed the society that has emerged over the last two decades. This is an epoch in which the Swedish welfare state, with its firmly anchored architecture and tradition, was vulgarised into a highly commercialised and internationalised consumer society, and where the blue and yellow of the flag are no longer recognisable. 

Few Swedish photographers have influenced so many colleagues in such a short time as Lars Tunbjörk specifically did with his reportage in _Stockholms-Tidningen, Metallarbetaren, Månadsjournalen_ and _Upp&Ner_. It was with the book _Landet utom sig/Country Beside Itself_ (1993) that Tunbjörk also made his international breakthrough. Today, he is a frequent contributor to leading journals all over the world, with the New York Times Magazine as one of his principal channels of communication.

Lars Tun­björk │ Home / Coun­try be­side it­self

The exhibition constitutes works from the series “Landet utom sig/Country beside itself” and “Hem/Home”.

Lars Tunbjörk │ Home / Country beside itself