What is it like to return to the place of one's childhood? When one returns to the countryside
far away from the hustle and bustle of the city far from one's own life and creative work? Jan
Töve's photographs of his home region are lyrical dabs of memory the wide-eyed absorption of
changes a laconic stocktaking of a present-day somewhere. For a period just short of ten years
(2007-16) the Swedish photographer and publicist returned time after time at different points
during the year portrayed landscape as well as inhabitants and discovered an individual
rhythm. He was interested in how people deal with their surroundings traditions and the
challenges posed by nature. In this series Töve who has produced numerous publications with
photographs of nature and landscapes found new structures and forms for instance a recurring
red that runs through the entire book-perhaps the signal of a defiant situatedness a
want-to-be-and-stay-here.
