“Susan Sontag, the great American polymath and photography critic, wrote, ‘To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.’ Swedish photographer and artist Jörgen Axelvall, in his expansive body of work, encapsulates Sontag’s theory with his lens pointed, always, at the here and now and the beauty of the (more often than not) male form in its prime — with the lingering realization that this will also decay and succumb to the ravages of time.”
The exhibition “And I reminisce” by Jörgen Axelvall is now open at KEN NAKAHASHI Gallery until November 30 (Sat), 2019.
instagram: @ken.nakahashi (KEN NAKAHASHI Gallery) and @jorgenaxelvall (Photographer and Artist)
Photo by KEN NAKAHASHI