Swedish artist JH Engström is an inveterate bookmaker. Most recently, his published works have explored ideas of place and home, including Sketch of Paris (Aperture, 2013), La Résidence (2010), From Back Home (2009), and CDG/JHE (2008). After more than a decade of such thematic projects, Tout Va Bien returns to the looser, more associative approach of Engström's critically acclaimed volume Trying to Dance (2003). The source for these photographs is nevertheless strongly autobiographical, as well as vividly metaphorical; a reemphasis of the artist's belief in photography's potential as visual poetry. The sequencing is highly charged with contrasts: black-and-white images mix with color; the gentle beauty of coastal rocks clashes with a flash-lit image of the bright, blood-red placentas from the birth of his twins. The book leaves it to the viewer to map his or her own network of meaning from image to image, page to page. Tout Va Bien is designed and produced by Patric Leo, who also collaborated with the artist on Trying to Dance.

At the center of these pictures is a strong feeling of being in an endless present tense.

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Summary: Anders Petersen and J.H. Engström are world renowned photographers, both originally from Värmland in western Sweden. Their new book "From back home" is one of the strongest photographic stories in many years about a Sweden far from the big city.

"The pictures in this book came about during two separate stays in Brussels, arranged by the Contretype photo center, one in the summer of 2003, the other in the spring of 2006. ... the idea is to offer the artist some time for reflection upon his work in general and its possible further developments. ... The results of his work are in no way subject to any particular demands, provided that they adhere to the normal limitations and regulations of society. ... The other part of the project is a specific view of the production site, the city of Brussels. ... In photography, JH Engström isn't trying to explain, but rather to render a profound experience of the absurdity of the human condition. These images moves us into a disquieting part of ourselves: our solitude on earth. Jean-Louis Godefroid, Director, Espace Photographique Contretyp"--Prelim.