Do Not Believe Everything
Trade book
- Concept and Photography: Henrik Malmström
- Book Design: Ricardo Baéz
- Texts: Paavo Järvensivu, L.E.G., Tero Toivanen
- Digital Retouch: Bob Lightowler
- Publisher: Pseudo Editions, –
- Edition: 200
- Printing: Printon, Tallinn
- Binding: Paperback, with white silkscreen on cover and back cover
- Pagination: 160 pages (21 x 30 cm)
- Illustrations: 30 b/w images, 19 color images and 30 newspaper reproductions
- Photographed: 2012
- Published: September 2022
- Additional Notes: Work produced during AIR period at Mustarinda (September 2012)
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Special edition including archival pigment print, in slipcase
- Edition: 10 signed and numbered
- Binder: Germán Loth, Ohja Taller
- Box: Cardstock (21.5 x 30.6 x 2.1 cm)
- Print: Archival pigment print, without title. 2022
Image: 18.5 x 24.3 cm. Sheet: 20.7 x 29.5 cm. Signed and numbered in pencil on verso - Printer: Henrik Malmström, Buenos Aires
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Synopsis
Before the arrival of Christianity, Finland still possessed a vast mythological tradition, its own way
of explaining the world, how the world was created and how it functions, a communal identity, dating back thousands of years.
In 2012 Henrik Malmström arrived in the region of Kainuu —the cradle of the Finnish national epic— with the intention of illustrating this mythology with images.
Once on spot, he was disappointed: “This region is now among the poorest in the country. The ancient culture no longer exists.”
He stayed, however, near the Paljakka Strict Nature Reserve, to photograph the old-growth forest growing there.
During this time, Malmström’s attention was drawn to minor news items published in the local newspaper, about “things that happen in the region, around this forest. Tragicomic and violent events, that were in a way very characteristic of Finland and of small Finnish localities.”
In their strikingness and crudeness, Malmström’s photographs of the forest resemble the short news items: “For me, the violence and the forest are in resonance.”
Unknowingly, Malmström assembles a modern and peculiar account of today’s Finland —a Finland that will also be lost in the course of time— in an era when we must learn to not believe everything we see.
This is the first part of the Awareness of Contrast book trilogy:
Do Not Believe Everything – Formless Violence – Illustrative Images
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The Portable Document Format of this publication can be downloaded, printed, and shared with others as long as the authorship is credited and there is a link back to the website of the author. This publication cannot be altered in any way or used for commercial purposes nor be displayed or exhibited without the consent of the artist.
CC (BY-NC-ND) / Henrik Malmström
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