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I will regularly publish here the latest news concerning my work as a photographer and translator: news from ongoing projects, the progress being made on upcoming photo books, the latest writer portraits, any newly published writer portraits in the press, current translations in progress, etc.

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. (...)

You can watch a short film presenting the book!

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A huge thanks to Johan Hellqvist for the music!

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

The camera is handmade by

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

The book is presented on a dedicated page on my website

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

Gröna Lund /2.

Laurent Denimal
Apr 24, 2023

The photo book Gröna Lund is presenting my work as a gardener at

the Stockholm Tivoli amusement park

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

The camera is handmade by

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.

A short film presenting the new book Gröna Lund is now on YouTube!

Watch and Share !

A huge thanks to Johan Hellqvist for the music!

From the Foreword...

(...) You might think that trying to find green spaces in such a densely built-on area would be like looking for a needle in a hay-stack, but they do exist: scraps and gaps of ground which have not been built on, beds planted with packed rows and layers of flowers, small paved areas, trees ringed with flowers as well as with low walls, the green alongside a railing or passageway, flowers on a concrete platform that holds up a tangled mass of steel. (...)

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

The book is presented on a dedicated page on my website

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

Gröna Lund /1.

Laurent Denimal
Apr 15, 2023

The photo book Gröna Lund is coming out soon !

It's now my eighth book, and the third presenting my work as a gardener, this time in a new, specific environment - an amusement park. The previous books on the same theme are Millesgården and Djurgården.

The pictures I present here 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

Five pages of the book

From the Foreword...

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. (...)

About the book

"Laurent Denimal's work is rooted in documentary photography, depictions of the workplace, but what he achieves is a strong artistic expression that can be read and experienced independently of the specific location, as an independent work in its own right.

(...) The optical unconscious that Walter Benjamin talks about: the power of photography to evoke and make visible when the image is given time to be interpreted. The viewer's curiosity is aroused."

Iréne Berggren

Photo historian and curator