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Pavlovka Pinhole Fest 2023.

Laurent Denimal
Jul 19, 2023

The Pavlovka pinhole fest is organized annually by the Pavlovka Art Gallery located in Kiev, Ukraine, since 2017.

This is an international festival dedicated to pinhole photography with authors from almost all corners of the world.

I will be part of the Pavlovka pinhole fest exhibition this summer, together with 60 others photographers.

I will show three colors photographs from the photo book Gröna Lund.

Format: 233x130 mm, 96 pages, 63 scanned photographs from colour negatives

4/4 printing

Paper: Munken lynx 170g (insert), Munken lynx 400g (cover), open spine binding

ISBN 9789152730478

All the photographs are captured with a pinhole panoramic camera (frame 24×56 mm), on 35mm colour film.

The amazing lines, contours and silhouettes of Gröna Lund are surprisingly well-suited to being captured by pinhole camera – the amusement park is a huge assemblage of infrastructure, with the myriad overlapping and criss-crossing angles of the various buildings and wooden and metal structures, the seemingly endless ingenious confluences and crossings of beams, tracery and buttresses.

The camera is handmade by Le Rouge, Alternative Photography.

The opening of the exhibition is on

Friday 21th July, 18:00

Hetman museum

Spasska str. 16 b - 04070 Kiev, Ukraine

Welcome !

Read more about the previous exhibition on the Blog of the

Pavlovka pinhole fest

International festival of pinhole photography

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Pavlovka Art Gallery on Instagram

The photo book Gröna Lund is available at the Online Shop!

Gröna Lund /4.

Laurent Denimal
Jun 2, 2023

Thank you everyone who came to the release of my photo book Gröna Lund

at the Stockholms Fotoantikvariat !

You can still see a series of photographs from the book at Stockholms Fotoantikvariat.

Stockholms Fotoantikvariat, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 31, Södermalm, Stockholm

The photo book Gröna Lund is now available at the Online Shop!

An artist's edition of fifteen autographed copies is presented in a slipcase with one numbered and signed colour print. The print is made on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta (size: 218 x 109 mm) and the slipcase is manufactured by Norrmalms Kartongfabrik (Stockholm).

Delivery in 2 to 6 working days worldwide

to the Shop

Gröna Lund is also available at the following places...

Stockholms Fotoantikvariat

Torkel Knutssonsgatan 31, Stockholm

Konst/ig Books

Åsögatan 124, Stockholm

Konst/ig Books

La Nouvelle Chambre Claire

3 Rue d'Arras, Paris, France

La Nouvelle Chambre Claire

About the book

The photographs are captured with a pinhole panoramic camera (frame 24×56 mm), on 35mm colour film.

The camera is handmade by LeRouge.

Technical data

Format: 233 x 130 mm, 96 pages, 63 panoramic colour photographs

Paper: Munken lynx 170g (insert), Munken lynx 400g (cover)

Open spine binding

ISBN 978-91-527-3047-8

Weight: 275 g

Read more about the book on a dedicated page on my website

to the Website

You can also follow the project on Instagram where I will publish the most recent news

Instagram

Gröna Lund /3.

Laurent Denimal
May 5, 2023

It's now time for the release of the photo book

Gröna Lund

The opening will take place at

Stockholms Fotoantikvariat

Saturday, May 13th

13:00 - 16:00

Torkel Knutssonsgatan 31, Södermalm, Stockholm

The pictures represent what I believe is a completely new way of looking at Gröna Lund. Perhaps it's something like the way visitors feel at the end of a day spent in the park, their senses spinning after so many strong impressions, and perhaps a little dizzy from going on the roller-coasters; tired and happy, and taking home with them a heady mix of memories, sights, sounds and colours.

The foreword is in French and English (translation Graham Bowers).

Front cover / back cover

An artist's edition of fifteen autographed copies is presented in a slipcase

with one numbered and signed colour print.

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A huge thanks to Johan Hellqvist for the music!

The slipcase is handmade by Norrmalms Kartongfabrik (Stockholm)

The print is made on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta 325 gsm

size: 218 x 109 mm

From the foreword

(...) Finally, a rich variety of hanging baskets and window boxes on ledges, windowsills and balconets add their part to the wealth of greenery and floral colour.

All of these elements are looked after, indeed cosseted, by a team of gardeners and park-keepers whose work in keeping this amusement park so attractive and nourishing to the eye is at the centre of this book. Embracing the rhythm of the seasons, and doing all they can to adapt what the seasons allow to the demanding requirements of the commercial activities of Gröna Lund, the photographs follow them at work through the spring and summer, caring for perennials, and maintaining the shrubs and trees and the few areas given over to grass. (...)