Stormskadad/Wounded by the Storm

2020

Published by Blackbook Publications
Graphic design Studio Moss
Translation from Swedish to English by Ulrich Hansen

In the book we encounter a forest where shrubs, log piles and damages made by storms are left unattained. The images investigate the structures, patterns and compositions that are created by decaying branches and tree trunks. And thus they remind us of our own condition: our own physicality and temporality. Collected in a book format, the images generate an intimate space that can be opened up by the reader or carried along by the hand.

In making the images, Lagerquist has used an analogue medium format camera, large enough to demand care and attention but portable enough for her to take for long walks. Time, care and revisits to the same forest was important aspects of the process, made more poignant as Lagerquist’s father got sick during this period – a person who made forestry an important part of his life’s work.