Village

Village was created during an Artist-in-Residency that Källström-Fäldt were invited to in Quebec City in Canada. Together with a research group based in Quebec, they adopted an equal parts photographic and linguistic perspective to search for displaced cultures in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, areas which, like other places with a colonial past, bear their cultural blind spots visible in language. Källström-Fäldt followed the names of places in search of a forgotten history. With one foot in the history of photography and references to Robert Frank's The Americans, they spent three months in a car, photographing specific sites and pairing them with their indigenous names, rather than their current names. They used the photographic caption as an artistic method. The indigenous names of the places they visited were translated into French and English which are the current official languages of Canada. In the composition of image and caption, Källström-Fäldt searched for the conflict that arises when text and photography resist describing each other. Instead, something else emerged; an image beyond the immediately visible.


PDF has complete info

Photographs by
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
Design by 1:2:3
256 pages with 121 color plates
240 x 300 mm / 9.4 x 11.8 in
Full color offset
Hardback / Clothbound
Edition: 500

Wikiland 2007-07-12 - 00:59:46

The project then evolved into an inquiry of the entertainment complex. The focus is now on a so-called gun-camera video from July 12, 2007, that was leaked by American soldier Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning) showing how civilians and Reuters photographers were gunned down from an Apache helicopter in Baghdad, a video which later came to be known as Collateral Murder. The video was published by Wikileaks on 5 April 2010, and Assange was hailed a brave activist. But less than four months later, the focus shifted away from the war crimes in Baghdad. The world media now turned its gaze towards Stockholm and the rape accusations against Assange in August 2010. Three years later, Collateral Murder re-occurred but this time in the 2013 Touchstone/Disney feature film titled The Fifth Estate in which Assange is portrayed as a dubious character, rather than a whistleblower revealing war crimes. An hour into the film (00:59:46 to be exact), the artists pressed ‘pause’, taking a photograph of a stained computer screen showing an image of actor Benedict Cumberbatch playing Assange. The core of the project is to highlight the film industry's capacity to render harmless leaked documentation of war crime.

PDF has complete info

Photographs by Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
Design by 1:2:3
Edited by KK+TF
32 pages with 29 color plates
Tabloid 29 x 38 cm / 11,4 x 14,9 i
n Poster 59 x 95 cm / 23.2 x 37.4 in
Cardboard box 20 x 30,5 cm / 7,8 x 12 in
Edition: 250
ISBN: 978-91-980069-4-0
Publication date: September 2014
B-B-B-Books

Save as PDF

A Beach

A Beach consists of photographs taken along the beach in the Arab city of Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, Israel. They are presented with a photograph from the same place taken by French photographer Félix Bonfils in 1880. The buildings that are visible in Bonfils’ photograph are now demolished to the ground to make way for a modern boardwalk. The construction is a result of the occupation of Palestine and is part of the gentrification and expansion of Tel Aviv. The only sign of the missing houses are pieces of mosaic from floor tiles found on the beach in Jaffa.

PDF has complete info

Photographs by Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
Text by Johannes Wahlström
Design by 1:2:3
B/w image of Jaffa 1880 by Félix Bonfils
28 pages with 21 color plates
134 x 180 mm / 5.3 x 7 in
Full color offset
Accordion-fold binding
2 folded inserts
Hard cover
Edition: 300
ISBN: 978-91-980069-3-3

Russian Bang / Ryska smällen

Language is the boundary to our mind,
just as history and memory
is the boundary to our reason.

Ludwig Wittgenstein expressed this
limitation in the following manner:
We cannot think what we cannot
think, therefore we cannot say what we cannot think.

Russian Bang / Ryska smällen is a series of photographs reflecting upon the occasion of the bombing by the Russian Airforce over Eriksdal in Stockholm in 1944. There are disagreements regarding the reasons behind the bombing, an almost unknown historical event remembered only by a few. Nobody was severely injured, although buildings and trees in the neighbourhood were damaged. In this photographic series, the trees are portrayed as they stand as eyewitnesses of an event that has been erased from our collective consciousness.

Photographs by Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
Texts by Johannes Wahlström
Design by 1:2:3
Edited by KK+TF
15 pages with 11 color plates
and 1 b/w plate
155 x 177 mm / 6.1 x 6,9 in
Inkjet & Risograph Print
Edition: 50
ISBN: 978-91-9800691-9

PDF has complete info
Save as PDF

Europe, Greece, Athens, Acropolis

The superimposed image from the series Europe, Greece, Athens, Acropolis is a micro-macro perspective on the week of general strikes in Athens in October 2011. A photograph of Syntagma Square, where the people were exercising their democratic rights in a country that had just made a bank manager head of state, is merged with intimate studies of the marble pillars of the Parthenon, the symbol of Western democracy.

PDF has complete info

Photographs by Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
Design by 1:2:3
Edited by KK+TF & 1:2:3
Front cover artwork by 1:2:3 & KK+TF
48 pages with 46 color plates
20.5 x 30.5 cm / 8.1 x 12 in
Full color offset
Perfect bound
Hard cover
Edition: 500
ISBN: 978-91-980069-0-2

Save as PDF

Blackdrop Island

The photographs in Klara Källström’s second book Blackdrop Island were taken during a stay in Tokyo in 2008 and a revisit in 2010. Documenting things at night, when darkness creates black backdrops and only allows us see a bit of the scenery, is something that occupies Källström’s interest. For her, this is a way of questioning the indexical aspects inherent in the photographic practice. As in the case of Källström’s earlier series, Gingerbread Monument, Viktor Johansson has anew written a poetic suite accompanying the images. The result is shown as two parallel worlds, encapsulated in double-folded sheets where text and image cannot be reduced to the sum of its parts.

The book was released at the opening of Källström’s solo show Blackdrop Island at Fotografiska in Stockholm in September 2011.

Photographs by Klara Källström
Edited by Thobias Fäldt
Design by 1:2:3 and Marika Vaccino Andersson
160 pages with 40 color plates
235 x 295 / 9.4 x 11.8 in
Full color offset
Perfect bound /
Japanese binding
Hard cover
Edition: 1000
ISBN: 978-91-979697-1-0

PDF has complete info Save as PDF