JH Engstrôm. Préhistoire which inspired a wooden head

which inspired a wooden head sculpted by the artist in 1907—the year the famous Demoiselles d'Avignon were painted—a nimba mask from Guinea

the city of the Arabian Nights

offers us an artistic vision of the mysteries of the world around us

transcendées par la reconstitution méticuleuse

these two statesmen of the 5th century BC both appear as ambitious men who did not hesitate to betray their country and put themselves at the service of the enemy

JH Engstrôm. Préhistoire which inspired a wooden headPhotographer, filmmaker, and author of numerous critically acclaimed books, JH Engstrm has been creating a poetry of images and words since the early 1990s. Drawing on his life, his memory, and his environment, JH Engstrm articulates the rural and the urban in his work as a metaphor for many other relationships: reflection and impulse, security and vulnerability, youth and adulthood, self and others, nature and civilization.