Lars Tunbjork

Lars Tunbjork's series Home interests me as he seems to concentrate on colour and geometric shapes which i also tend to look at. This is especially evident in my images of Byker. I really like how Tunbjork documents these areas leaving them absent of any people it leaves a little to the imagination, you can almost imagine what the people that live here look like.

Made primarily in the suburbs of Stockholm (but also in Boras, Hedemora, Espevik, and other Swedish towns), Tunbjork's saturated color photographs immediately call to mind William Eggleston's images of suburban America. But upon a closer look, his style and method is far less 'democratic' than the American master. There is an homage to structure taking place within these pages that is decidedly quieter than the snapshot liveliness of Eggleston's world. For one thing, there are far fewer humans included within the frame, and while the attention to color and the quirkiness of suburbia is plentiful, likewise the absence of people adds to the slightly eerie stillness.
(http://www.photoeye.com/templates/ShowDetailsbyCat.cfm?Catalog=PK860)

In Home, from the late 1990s, the terser aesthetics refer to memories from Lars Tunbjörk’s own childhood. It is not a documentation of suburbia or middle-class taste, but a personal exploration of childhood surroundings and the buildings and areas we call home.

Commenting on his work, Tunbjörk says; “I want to be strictly documentary, but it’s all about me.”

(http://www.modernamuseet.se/v4/templates/template3.asp?lang=Eng&id=3529)