My book Abandoned – The Beauty in What Remains has been purchased by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and is now available in their museum shop. To me, this in itself carries a certain significance, not to mention validation.

Louisiana has long held a reputation not only for its exhibitions, but for the careful sensibility that extends into everything they show and sell. The Louisiana Butik reflects that same curatorial discipline – a considered selection rather than a commercial afterthought.

To be included there places the book in a context that feels appropriate to its intent. Abandoned – The Beauty in What Remains is, at its core, a study of time, absence, and the unintended aesthetics that emerge when places are left behind.

My photographs – drawn from locations including Chernobyl, Gotland, Lisbon, Sorento,  Salton Sea, and the ghost town of Bodie – are less about decay in itself and more about texture, light, and structure, and how they begin to take on a different kind of presence once function is left to the wayside and, ultimately, abandoned.

I could argue that the shop is almost as well curated as their exhibitions – meaning that I feel both honored and, in a more measured sense, properly placed among the books, prints, and objects presented there. It’s another tall, proud feather in my hat.

Abandoned is also available at NK Bokhandel, the shop at Gothenburg Museum of Art, and Malmö Konsthall, as well as in all three locations of The English Bookshop (Uppsala, Gothenburg, and Stockholm). You can also order the book from Akademibokhandeln, Adlibris, Bokus, and Amazon.