ABOUT

His photographic eye was sharply revealing and ironic, but not without tenderness. He viewed the country from the perspective of the periphery. Always Borås. His gaze was new because he showed what was invisible to us: the image of ourselves and our society. From Borås, Lars Tunbjörk’s career reached out across the entire world. The images that raised so many questions have become part of our collective memory. This is photography as narrative, documentation, and outstanding art. 

In the photo project Landet utom sig, Lars Tunbjörk’s breakthrough work, he sought out people in campgrounds, shopping malls, and department stores to tell the story of the garish arrival of market economy in Sweden—a societal shift that, in the 1990s, was also global. With his medium-format camera and homemade flash, he created absurdist images full of both humor and melancholy. “A Tunbjörk” became a concept, and he wrote himself into the history of photography.