special event at the UK’s National Media Museum will give visitors the chance to meet the leading Swedish photographers behind one of the Museum’s current exhibitions – From Back Home. “In Conversation with Anders Petersen and JH Engström” takes place in the Museum’s Cubby Broccoli Cinema between 1pm and 3pm on Tuesday 22 March. Tickets are available for £5. Tutors are eligible for a free ticket when accompanying a group of students.

National Media Museum Press Release

FROM BACK HOME PHOTOGRAPHERS AT THE NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM

In Conversation with Anders Petersen and JH Engström + Screening of L’Art et la Manière/Anders Petersen

Tuesday 22 March 2011, National Media Museum
Cubby Broccoli Cinema, 1pm - 3pm

Box Office: 0844 856 3797 www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

Tickets £5.00, £4.00 concessions.

A special event at the National Media Museum will give visitors the chance to meet the leading Swedish photographers behind one of the Museum’s current exhibitions – From Back Home.

In Conversation with Anders Petersen and JH Engström takes place in the Museum’s Cubby Broccoli Cinema between 1pm and 3pm on Tuesday 22 March.

It is a unique opportunity to hear Anders Peterson and JH Engström who will be giving an insight into their work and in particular the award-winning project From Back Home which is currently being displayed for the first time in the UK. 

The event includes a screening of a short documentary L’Art et la Manière, which follows Anders Peterson as he worked on the final preparations for the opening of From Back Home at the Fotografiska Museet in Stockholm.

Their project began in 2001, when Petersen (b1944) and Engström (b1969) began a seven-year collaboration to photograph the Värmland, the central western area of Sweden where both men spent their formative years.  Travelling into the heart of their subject, their potent and captivating photographs became an intense voyage of discovery into both the place and people that shaped them, and their associations with one another.

Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs at the National Media Museum, said: “Combining the work of two photographers born a generation apart, yet reflecting on their shared identity, ‘From Back Home’ is a remarkable achievement. It elegantly demonstrates the power of photography to be intimate and personal, while accessible to the viewer.”

The photographic work of Anders Petersen (b1944) and JH Engström (b1969) deals unflinchingly with experience, memory and the human condition.  They established their reputations with two seminal works, Petersen’s Café Lehmitz (1978) and Engström’s Trying to Dance (2004).  Both have since been producing some of the most deeply personal and moving work in contemporary photography practice.

Tutors are eligible for a free ticket when accompanying a group of students. Please call 0844 856 3797 to book your tickets or see our website at www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

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