The Frame

The Frame – “Since I started photography 30 years ago, I’ve photographed men. Over the years, I have also photographed transgender people on several occasions. Self-portraits have been another recurring motif over these 30 years. My own thousands of contact sheets bear witness to an ongoing search, both conscious and unconscious, for identity and the constantly changing, ephemeral nature of the human condition. In addition to these images, the book begins and ends with photographs of morainal rocks. These rocks were pushed forward by the ice cap. When the ice melted 10,000 years ago, they stopped where they are today. The expanded self-portrait and the reflection in others is a way of addressing the historical renegotiation currently taking place regarding the idea of the male.”

JH Engström.