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  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Feb 19, 2024



Skillebyholm is a meeting place, a centre for biodynamic farming, education and sustainable development, and celebrates 50 years this year.

With four activities scheduled over the year, Skillebyholm aims to create opportunities for people to meet, learn new things, develop a space for reflection and, of course, celebrate!


You can find the full programme at the Skillebyholm homepage.


As I study for two years (2011-2013) at the Skillebyholm College of Biodynamic Gardening, I photographed the daily activity at the College during four month, between January 9th to April 30th, 2012, with one Polaroid image a day.

Twelve images are presented here, in anticipation of spring and the return of light.





Skillebyholm est un lieu de rencontre, un centre pour l'agriculture biodynamique, l'éducation et le développement durable, qui fête cette année ses 50 ans.

Avec quatre activités programmées au cours de l'année 2024, Skillebyholm souhaite créer des opportunités de rencontres, permettre l'acquisition de nouvelles connaissances, développer un espace de réflexion et, bien sûr, faire la fête !


Le programme complet est disponible sur le site de Skillebyholm.


Au cours de mes deux années d'étude à l'école de jardinage et d’horticulture de Skillebyholm, j’ai photographié l’activité quotidienne à l’école pendant quatre mois avec une image Polaroid par jour, entre le 9 janvier et le 30 avril 2012.

Douze images sont présentées ici, dans l’attente du printemps et du retour de la lumière.



 






 



The complete collection of photographs is available in an photo album

(31 photographs, 46 pages, format 20 x 25 cm)


La collection complète des photographies est rassemblée dans un album photo

(31 photographies, 46 pages, format 20 x 25 cm)









 



  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Nov 11, 2023

New books of the ten following writers has been recently published in French and Swedish; Lídia Jorge, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Mohsin Hamid, Rachid Benzine, Jan Henrik Swahn, Agneta Pleijel, Jaume Cabré, Johan Theorin, Guillaume Lefebvre and Alex Ahndoril.





You will find all the portraits of these writers at the Opale Agency






You can even see the complete collection of writers portrait here.



 




Lídia Jorge *

Misericordia

 



Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Systrarna

 



Mohsin Hamid

Le dernier homme blanc

 



Rachid Benzine

Les silences des pères

 



Jan Henrik Swahn *

Vattenläkaren

 



Agneta Pleijel *

Sniglar och snö

 



Jaume Cabré

Consumés par le feu

 



Johan Theorin

Ristmärken

 



Guillaume Lefebvre

Piège mortel en haute mer

Aubane Editions

 



Alex Ahndoril

Jag kommer att hitta nyckeln


 

The writers name with an * are represented in the book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits", Carlssons 2021.

 

  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Oct 22, 2023


Have you ever dreamed of meeting

French gardener and photographer, Laurent Denimal,

who has lived in Sweden for three decades,

and who has contributed, among other things,

three very beautiful books of photographs

on three of the most emblematic parks and excursion spots in Stockholm?







I will be present during the two days devoted by SSF

to the Photography Book Fair in Stockholm,

on October 27 and 28,

where the latest book, Gröna Lund, will be presented.




photo Hendrik Zeitler, Fotobokfestival 2022




Friday, October 27th, 12:00 - 19:00

Saturday, October 28th, 12:00 - 16:00



Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Plan 5



 



This will be a unique opportunity to see the three works relating to these green spaces brought together on the same table; Gröna Lund, Djurgården and Millesgården, and to be able to discuss with the photographer his original working method and also about the stages that were followed from the inception of the project to the final production of the book.






Gröna Lund (LDP, 2022), foreword Laurent Denimal.


While working as a gardener at Stockholm's Gröna Lund tivoli, I carried a wooden pinhole panorama camera loaded with 35-mm film around with me.

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An artist's edition of fifteen autographed copies is presented in a slipcase with one numbered and signed colour print.

designed by Laurent Denimal






Djurgården, in the King's Park (Carlssons, 2014), foreword Per Wästberg.

Djurgården, which once upon a time was the royal deer park in Stockholm, is today the world's first national city park. It forms a green oasis just across the water from the city centre. I spent a season working in the park as a gardener, and had my Polaroid camera with me every day.

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Polaroid photography provides unique, small-format images without a negative, limited to a single original photograph. The book "In the King's Park" presents a selection of motifs that were caught in an instant.




designed by Johannes Molin






Millesgården, in the Sculptor's Park (Carlssons, 2008), foreword Agneta Pleijel.


The photo book Millesgården, in the Sculptor's Park takes you for a walk through the sculpture park in the grounds of the house formerly belonging to Swedish sculptor Carl Milles (1875-1955), located on the island of Lidingö, outside Stockholm.

An artist's edition is presented in a black slipcase with one numbered and signed original print.



designed by Johannes Molin




 



Watch two shorts clips presenting the new book



Gröna Lund






and


the Artist Edition




music Johan Hellqvist





 


Five other books published by Laurent Denimal will be also exhibited


The books are :




LDP Editions 2011, text Laurent Denimal


LDP 2015, foreword Éléonore Lelong


LDP Editions 2019, text Laurent Denimal


Carlssons 2020, foreword Josyane Savigneau


LDP Editions 2022, text Philippe Bouquet



 






 



Welcome to the

Photo Book Fair 2023!



Friday, October 27th, 12:00 - 19:00

Saturday, October 28th, 12:00 - 16:00



Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Plan 5



Stockholm, Sweden




 


LDP © 2024 Järna, Sweden / mail[@]laurentdenimal.se 

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