But as surely as night follows day, Livraison doesn’t limit itself to one form of expression. The secret personalites of some are perfectly complemented by the secret appearances of others. In Livraison III, 69 photographers, including Bela Borsodi, Helmut Lang, Sølve Sundsbø, Richard Burbridge and Viviane Sassen, manifest their visions of secret identities by using masks to conceal the real identity of their objects, create a sort of dualism, erase or enhance the person behind the mask and give birth to a new identity.

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ART CONTRIBUTORS:
ADAM ETMANSKI, AMIRA FRITZ, ANNA KLEBERG, ANNIKA ASCHBERG, ANOUK KRUITHOF, ANUSCHKA BLOMMERS & NIELS SCHUMM, BELA BORSODI, BETTINA KHANO, BRENDAN AUSTIN, BRUNO AUGSBURGER, CAMILLE VIVIER, CARLOS ALBALÁ & IGNASI LÓPEZ, CHRISTIAN COINBERGH, COLLIER SCHORR, DAN TOBIN SMITH, DANIEL GUSTAV CRAMER, DAWID, EDGAR MARTINS, ELSPETH DIEDERIX, EMIL LARSSON, ERIK UNDÉHN, ERNST FISCHER, EVA FIORE KOVACOVSKY, EYAL PINKAS, FREDERIK LIEBERATH, FRODE & MARCUS, GERRY JOHANSSON, GUERRA DE LA PAZ, HANS GEDDA, JAAP SCHEEREN, JENNY KÄLLMAN, JENNY VAN SOMMERS, JH ENGSTRÖM, JOËL TETTAMANTI, JOHAN FOWELIN, JOHN DIVOLA, KÖRNER UNION, LINDA BERGMAN, MAGNUS MAGNUSSON, MAKIN JAN MA, MARC TURLAN, MARIANNE VIERØ, MARNIX GOOSSENS, MARTINA HOOGLAND IVANOW, Melanie Bonajo, MICHAEL WOLF, MYNE SØE — PEDERSEN, MYOUNG HO LEE, NAOYA HATAKEYAMA, NICHOLAS HUGHES, OLA BERGENGREN, OLA RINDAL, OLIVO BARBIERI, OSAMU KANEMURA, POPEL COUMOU, QIU YANG, RAPHAEL HEFTI, RYUJI MIYAMOTO, SHONA HEATH, STELLA FABER, STEPHANIE KLOSS, TARYN SIMON, THOMAS ADANK, THOMAS STRUTH, WALTER NIEDERMAYR, YOSHIHIKO UEDA, YOSUKE BANDAI AND YURI NAGAWARA.

WORD CONTRIBUTORS:
ANDY GREENHOUSE, ANN-SOFI SIDÉN, ASTRID SYLWAN, CHARLOTTE GYLLENHAMMAR, DAN SNAITH, DAVY ROTHBART, GORM HEEN, HOWARD SHORE, LUKE RHEINHART, MUFFY GAYNOR, OSAMU KANEMURA, PERNILLA STÖDBERG, PHILIPPE GRANDRIEUX, RUTH HINKEL-PEVZNER, SATANICPORNOCULTSHOP, SEBASTIEN TELLIER, SIGRID SANDSTRÖM, SISSEL T, STEPHEN TORTON, SUSAN ROBB, THE SARTORIALIST AND YOLANDE ZAUBERMAN.

But as surely as night follows day, Livraison doesn’t limit itself to one form of expression. The secret personalites of some are perfectly complemented by the secret appearances of others. In Livraison III, 69 photographers, including Bela Borsodi, Helmut Lang, Sølve Sundsbø, Richard Burbridge and Viviane Sassen, manifest their visions of secret identities by using masks to conceal the real identity of their objects, create a sort of dualism, erase or enhance the person behind the mask and give birth to a new identity.

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ART CONTRIBUTORS:
ADAM ETMANSKI, ADRIEN MISSIKA, AIMÉE HOVING, ANDERS EDSTRÖM, ANDRÉ WOLFF, ANDREA CREWS, ANNIKA ASCHBERG, ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF, ANN—SOFIE BACK, ANNE DE VRIES, ANTIMODE, ANOUSH ABAR, ANOUK KRUITHOF, ARNOLD KEMP, BANDAI YOSUKE, BELA BORSODI, BRUCE LABRUCE, CAMILLE VIVIER, CARLEE FERNANDEZ, CHARLES FRÉGER, COLLIER SCHORR, DAMIEN BLOTTIERE, DAMON ZUCCONI, DANIEL SANNWALD, ELLEN AF GEIJERSTAM, ERIK KESSELS, ESTELLE HANANIA, FREDRIK SKOGKVIST, GEORGE BOLSTER, GUERRA DE LA PAZ, GWON OSANG, HELMUT LANG, HRAFNHILDUR ARNARDÓTTIR, JAAP SCHEEREN, JEAN ULRICK DÉSERT, JH ENGSTRÖM, JOHAN FOWELIN, JOHAN RENCK, JOHN SCARISBRICK, KRISTA VAN DER NIET, LEVI VAN VELUW, LOUISE ENHÖRNING, LOVISA BURFITT, MANUELA BARCZEWSKI, MARCELO KRASILCIC, MARK TURLAN, MARNIX GOOSSENS, MARTINA HOOGLAND IVANOW, MAURICE SCHELTENS, Melanie Bonajo, MI—ZO, MISAKI KAWAI, MISS LIZ, NAGI NODA, OLA BERGENGREN, OLA RINDAL, OLIVER SIEBER, PATRIK SÖDERSTAM, PETER FREITAG, PETER GESCHWIND, PIETER HUGO, RACHEL THOMAS, REJECTEFFECT, REZA ARAMESH, RICHARD BURBRIDGE, ROGER ANDERSSON, RUTH VAN BEEK, SANDRA BACKLUND, SANDRA FREIJ, SANDY PLOTNIKOFF, SIMON WALD—LASOWSKI, STEFAN BURGER, STEPHEN LEWIS, SØLVE SUNDSBØ, THORSTEN BRINKMAN, TILMAN PESCHEL, TONK, TRE DADLAR, AND VIVIANE SASSEN.

WORD CONTRIBUTORS:
AKI KAURISMÄKI, DANIELLE GUSTAFSON—SUNDELL, DAVID SHRIGLEY, DINOS CHAPMAN, ELS PYNOO, ERIK KESSELS, FREIRE BARNES, HRAFNHILDUR ARNARDÓTTIR, JAKE CHAPMAN, JAYSON SCOTT MUSSON, JOE SWANBERG, JON JEFFERSON KLINGBERG, JUN MORIOKA ELDING, KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, KATHRYN WILLIAMS, MADELEINE BERKHEMER, MICHELLE CORTEZ, MIKE MILLS, NEIL STRAUSS, PAUL FREUD, RALPH LUNDSTEN, RICHARD KERN, RICHARD MILWARD, SEBASTIAN HORSLEY, SÉRGIO DIAS, SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI, STEPHANE BARBIER BOUVET, SOPHIE BROWN, TOMÁS VANEK, TIM NEU, UDO KIER, VICTOR GLEMAUD AND WILL STEFFEN.

The visual side of Livraison #2 examines objects that pass most of us by daily without capturing our attention >>The stuff that surrounds you<<. We have placed these objects into a new context, allowing them to act as the model in front of the camera, showing the relationship between the photographer and object.

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ART CONTRIBUTORS:
ANDERS EDSTRÖM, ANNA KLEBERG, ANNABEL ELSTON, ANNE DE VRIES, ANUSCHKA BLOMMERS, BELA BORSODI, CAMILLE VIVIER, DANNY TREACY, DAWID, ELSPETH DIEDERIX, ERWIN WURM, FREDERIK LIEBERATH, GARETH MCCONNELL, JOHAN FOWELIN, KRISTA VAN DER NIET, LARS TUNBJÖRK, MARIANNE VIERØ, MARNIX GOOSSENS, MAURICE SCHELTENS, Melanie Bonajo, MICHAEL BAUMGARTEN, NEIL STRAUSS, OLA BERGENGREN, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, RICHARD KERN, RIITTA PÄIVÄLÄINEN, TOBY MCFARLAN POND AND VIVIANE SASSEN.

WORD CONTRIBUTORS:
ALAIN DE BOTTON, ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK, ALYSA NAHMIAS, AMY KELLNER, ANDREAS TILLIANDER, ANNA LUNDH, ARESA, BELLES OF THE BLACK DIAMONDFIELD, BENNETT MADISON, BILLY PARISH, CARL JOHAN DE GEER, DONNA TARTT, EMILY BARCLAY, FIELD, GENEVIÈVE GAUCKLER, HASSAN KHAN, JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI, JORDAN SCHUSTER, JUAN MACLEAN, JULIE VERHOEVEN, KIM JONES, MALTE SCHLORF, MARK DOTY, MATTI PYYKKO, MICHAEL NYMAN, MIRANDA JULY, MISAKI KAWAI, NAOYUKI TSUJI, PAOLA STENBORG, SERENA REEDER, TETSUYA MIZUGUCHI, THE MAGIC NUMBERS, THE YES MEN, REIKO UNDERWATER, ROGER ANDERSSON, RUBEN FLEISCHER, WES LANG AND YASMINE KASSARI.

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ART CONTRIBUTORS:
Andreas Ackerup, Andreas Larsson, Elisabeth Toll, Fredrik Skogkvist, Jonas Isfält, Kristian Bengtsson, Louise Enhörning, Marcus Söder, Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Martin Runeborg, Melanie Bonajo, Miss Liz, Mikael Olsson, Ola Rindal, Sarah Shatz, Soody Sharifi, Sophie Mörner, Tobias Nilsson, Tomas Falmer and Vincent Gapaillard.

WORD CONTRIBUTORS:
Adult, Alicia Erian, Ann-Sofie Back, Asia Argento, The Beauty Shop, BRUCE LABRUCE, Clay Lacefield, Efterklang, Extreme Kidnapping, Fluxus, Go Hiyama, Ikonoskop, James Warhola, Jason Lee, Jeans Team, Jonas Elding, Joseph Gaï Ramaka, Kalle Lasn, Kings of Convenience, Maison Martin Margiela, Matthew Thurber, May Cornet, M/M (Paris), Morenotwins, Petra Lindholm, Princess Nicotine, Rei Kawakubo, REJECTEFFECT, ROGER ANDERSSON, Stephen Elliot, Steve Almond, Swayzak, Syrup Helsinki and Yoav Shamir.

»Night, light« seems to exploit the tension between the fear of seeing and the fear of what’s hidden from our view. This dynamic takes on a different meaning depending on whether we’re confronted with urban darkness or nature’s murkiness. Rindal’s photographic approach to the city and nature is the same but the ultimate effect differs.

We become night-goggle spies on what the darkness hides from our view. And yet, what we see doesn’t fully appease us. Under the photographically lifted veil of darkness a mystery still remains.

In the images that evidently originate from a big city we are given hints of life off the social grid. It’s a walk on the dark side. A world peopled by street gangs, vagrants and hustlers, where the intentions of others are shady – at least these are the stereotypes our imagination comes up with. We become lonely nightwalkers halting at what appears to be empty places and blind alleys. Experiencing the vulnerability one feels when walking at night in places we do not know.

Gently pushed out of the city center into the woods, we are confronted with the dead calm of nature. Its tranquility tends to stimulate the fantasy of the monstrous, something which children’s books like the Grimm Brothers’ Hansel and Gretel taps into. And it’s hard not to let one’s imagination run wild and read Wicca religion, primitive rituals or witchcraft into these images of nature.

However, they are completely devoid of any visual manifestation of the occult. Rindal clearly knows that the fundamentally expressionless character of nature is what makes it a mystery. In the end, the only thing we can say about it is that it is an enigma.

Thus, any possible explanation as to the identity of the story’s anti-hero is perpetually kept on hold. He could be part of a shady military experiment gone wrong or an outcast from a strange tribe of woodsmen. And if this is an interior journey through a muddled mind that we’ve embarked on, well it’s very hard to say, since the only thing to go on is the visual manifestations of the beekeeper’s state of mind.

Despite the omnipresence of an almost romantic sunlight reminiscent of Aleksandr Sukorov’s hallucinatory 1987 film ›Days of Eclipse‹, ›Beekeeper‹ is touched by an undercurrent of catastrophe that gradually contaminates everything. Most of all, it appears to have taken hold of the man’s mind. The secret of bees seems to have given his existence an unclear purpose in this beautiful but isolated sun-tinged universe.

And this is crucial. Because in the end the big question raised here is existential. Every human being strives to establish some purpose in life. But what if purpose becomes an obsession that overtakes life? Determined to crack whatever the code of bees may be, the anti-hero of ›Beekeeper‹ leaves chaos in his wake.

The allure of the highly organized life of bees is, in a sense, understandable. Bees serve a greater purpose that the beekeeper seems to lack. They live, they play their part in reproduction with predictable monotony, they die. Clean and simple. The beekeeper, on the other hand, is an incarnation of the darkest forces of human nature. He is fallible, confused and lonely. He can never be sure that he has found his nirvana. In the end, to paraphrase Samuel Beckett, he can at the most hope to fail better the next time he tries to solve the mystery of the bees.

The genre has been particularly important to photography. For reasons both practical and aesthetical, the very first photographs ever made show objects arranged to please the eye. The lengthy exposure times made static subjects a necessity, but it was also about finding an association to an established art form. Ever since, still life has been a lively photographic tradition. There is in Hans Gedda’s case, strong affinity, not least, to surrealism’s imagery and use of objects. In his works, things are combined and charged with meanings and expressions that they don’t have individually. Common objects are transformed when they perform on the stage where the still life takes place. For example, the scissors in Hans Gedda’s pictures are something completely different from those in the kitchen drawer. Frequently, the objects are characterised by an enigmatic charm and this is underlined further by unexpected encounters. Frequently, there is an interplay established between nature and culture. You could call his book a bestiary, but it is also reminiscent of a cabinet of curiosities. A collection of things, living and dead, that fascinate with their strangeness and beauty. These captivating characteristics may also be of the repulsive kind, which is often the case in these still lifes.

Hans Gedda is a photographer, however in this case the creative process begins with the arrangement of the objects. He literally constructs the pictures first and photographs them afterwards. Yet the objects aren’t everything. Nor the combinations. An absolutely crucial aspect is the light. Hans Gedda reads and utilises its possibilities to conjure up structures and surfaces, create density and space. Recognisable from the portraits is his skill in making use of the format and creating a picture that, regardless of motif, captures and holds the interest of the viewer.

NICLAS ÖSTLIND, CURATOR AND POSTGRADUATE OF THE SCHOOL OF PHOTGRAPHY.

ERWIN WURM, ESTELLE HANANIA, EVA FIORE KOVACOVSKY, Extreme Kidnapping, EYAL PINKAS, FIELD, Fluxus, FREDERIK LIEBERATH, FREDRIK SKOGKVIST, FREIRE BARNES, FRODE & MARCUS, GARETH MCCONNELL, GENEVIÈVE GAUCKLER, GEORGE BOLSTER, GERRY JOHANSSON, Go Hiyama, GORM HEEN, GUERRA DE LA PAZ, GWON OSANG, HANS GEDDA, HASSAN KHAN, HELMUT LANG, HOWARD SHORE, HRAFNHILDUR ARNARDÓTTIR, Ikonoskop, JAAP SCHEEREN, JAKE CHAPMAN, James Warhola, Jason Lee, JAYSON SCOTT MUSSON, JEAN ULRICK DÉSERT, Jeans Team, JENNY KÄLLMAN, JENNY VAN SOMMERS, JH ENGSTRÖM, JOE SWANBERG, JOËL TETTAMANTI, JOHAN FOWELIN, JOHAN RENCK, JOHN DIVOLA, JOHN SCARISBRICK, JON JEFFERSON KLINGBERG, Jonas Elding, JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI, Jonas Isfält, JORDAN SCHUSTER, Joseph Gaï Ramaka, JUAN MACLEAN, JULIE VERHOEVEN, JUN MORIOKA ELDING, Kalle Lasn, KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, KATHRYN WILLIAMS, KIM JONES, Kings of Convenience, KRISTA VAN DER NIET, Kristian Bengtsson, KÖRNER UNION, LARS TUNBJÖRK, LEVI VAN VELUW, LINDA BERGMAN, LOUISE ENHÖRNING, LOVISA BURFITT, LUKE RHEINHART, M/M (Paris), MADELEINE BERKHEMER, MAGNUS MAGNUSSON, Maison Martin Margiela, MAKIN JAN MA, MALTE SCHLORF, MANUELA BARCZEWSKI, MARC TURLAN, MARCELO KRASILCIC, Marcus Söder, MARIANNE VIERØ, MARK DOTY, MARNIX GOOSSENS, Martin Runeborg, MARTINA HOOGLAND IVANOW, Matthew Thurber, MATTI PYYKKO, MAURICE SCHELTENS, May Cornet, Melanie Bonajo, MI—ZO, MICHAEL BAUMGARTEN, MICHAEL NYMAN, MICHAEL WOLF, MICHELLE CORTEZ, Mikael Olsson, MIKE MILLS, MIRANDA JULY, MISAKI KAWAI, MISS LIZ, Morenotwins, MUFFY GAYNOR, MYNE SØE – PEDERSEN, MYOUNG HO LEE, NAGI NODA, NAOYA HATAKEYAMA, NAOYUKI TSUJI, NEIL STRAUSS, NICHOLAS HUGHES, NIELS SCHUMM, OLA BERGENGREN, OLA RINDAL, OLIVER SIEBER, OLIVO BARBIERI, OSAMU KANEMURA, PAOLA STENBORG, PATRIK SÖDERSTAM, PAUL FREUD, PERNILLA STÖDBERG, PETER FREITAG, PETER GESCHWIND, Petra Lindholm, PHILIPPE GRANDRIEUX, PIETER HUGO, POPEL COUMOU, Princess Nicotine, QIU YANG, RACHEL THOMAS, RALPH LUNDSTEN, RAPHAEL HEFTI, Rei Kawakubo, REIKO UNDERWATER, REJECTEFFECT, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, REZA ARAMESH, RICHARD BURBRIDGE, RICHARD KERN, RICHARD MILWARD, RIITTA PÄIVÄLÄINEN, ROGER ANDERSSON, RUBEN FLEISCHER, RUTH HINKEL-PEVZNER, RUTH VAN BEEK, RYUJI MIYAMOTO, SANDRA BACKLUND, SANDRA FREIJ, SANDY PLOTNIKOFF, Sarah Shatz, SATANICPORNOCULTSHOP, SEBASTIAN HORSLEY, SEBASTIEN TELLIER, SERENA REEDER, SÉRGIO DIAS, SHONA HEATH, SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI, SIGRID SANDSTRÖM, SIMON WALD—LASOWSKI, SISSEL T, Soody Sharifi, SOPHIE BROWN, Sophie Mörner, STEFAN BURGER, STELLA FABER, STEPHANE BARBIER BOUVET, STEPHANIE KLOSS, Stephen Elliot, STEPHEN LEWIS, STEPHEN TORTON, Steve Almond, SUSAN ROBB, Swayzak, Syrup Helsinki, SØLVE SUNDSBØ, TARYN SIMON, TETSUYA MIZUGUCHI, The Beauty Shop, THE MAGIC NUMBERS, THE SARTORIALIST, THE YES MEN, THOMAS ADANK, THOMAS STRUTH, THORSTEN BRINKMANN, TILMAN PESCHEL, TIM NEU, Tobias Nilsson, TOBY MCFARLAN POND, Tomas Falmer, TOMÁS VANEK, TONK, TRE DADLAR, UDO KIER, VICTOR GLEMAUD, Vincent Gapaillard, VIVIANE SASSEN, WALTER NIEDERMAYR, WES LANG, WILL STEFFEN, YASMINE KASSARI, Yoav Shamir, YOLANDE ZAUBERMAN, YOSHIHIKO UEDA, YOSUKE BANDAI, YURI NAGAWARA.