Johan Bergström

Johan Bergström was born in Piteå, in the North of Sweden in 1978. He now lives and works in Stockholm and Berlin. Before his studies at the School of Photography in Göteborg he assisted various photographers - most notably, Christer Strömholm, Anders Petersen and JH Engström. He received a Bachelor in Photography in 2007 and was awarded with the Robert Frank fellowship 2007 for his final project Nostalgia at the School of Photography. He was nominated for the Hasselblad Foundation Victor Fellowship in 2007 and presented in PLAT(T)FORM 08 at Fotomuseum Winterthur. Bergströms work is included in the collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur, as well as numerous private collections. His work is currently shown at Fotogalleriet in Oslo and has previously been exhibited internationally at Paris Photo and DFOTO in San Sebastián by Galerie VU'. In the series Smoke Signals Johan Bergström reflects on the extrusion of villages caused by lignite mining in the Lausitz area in eastern Germany, operated by Swedish state-owned power company Vattenfall. Johan Bergrstöm is represented by GunGallery in Stockholm.