Var finns alla polarna? / Where have all my friends gone ? (SIGNED)

Per Björn
Var finns alla polarna? / Where have all my friends gone ? (SIGNED)

Photographs: Per Björn

Text: Johan Gunnarsson

Publisher: Journal

82 pages

Year: 2017

Comments: Softcover, 240 x 170 mm. First edition, 2017. Black & white photographs. Text in english & in swedish. Copy signed by Per Björn.

Flower-power, long hair, Afghan coats, drugs and groovy music symbolised part of the Swedish youth culture in the 1970s. Many of its followers gathered in Farsta Centre, one of the new model suburbs of Stockholm. Per Björn was here in 1972. He was studying interior architecture and wanted to look at possible designs for the youth centre, but became more interested in the young visitors and started photographing them. With time, he witnessed how their longing for freedom also had a darker side.