Urban portraits  

Originally from Sweden Douglas Ljungkvist, now based in New York, develops a photographic research on urban landscapes, favouring as he says “feeling and mood than decisive moments”. There are many themes that run through his work: residual environments, silence, discarded items and waiting places. In these urban settings, the human presence is not always there, though its interaction is never random, as in the series Coney Island July 4th or Passing Moments. The urbanism, common thread in his investigations, however, is portrayed through a personal poetics that does not disdain the aesthetic action to awake emotion and curiosity in the observer. In Ljungkvist’s work we grasp as well a subtle desire to tell about places. It is through soft recalls, marked enough to draw the premises to trace a story. Like that, very special, of Middletown, where the Swedish photographer seems to reach a vibrant and conscious expressive balance.

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© Courtesy of Douglas Ljungkvist

www.douglasljungkvist.com

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