Log Drivers — Stig T Karlsson
25 April—31 May 2015
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25 April—31 May 2015
Sven-Harry's brother Stig T Karlsson has sadly left us. We remember him with warmth and honors his memory by showing some images from his photo series about log drivers in Lilla Luleälv. Stig T Karlsson was born in Lund 1930, based in Vaxholm, and dead by February 2015.
In Log Drivers, Stig T Karlsson has worked with his Hasselblad camera. It feels important to clarify a working process that may seem so simple today. Balancing the camera and oneself on slippery rocks and thorny slopes and at the same time capturing and anticipating the rapid movements that the work of log driving involves is a complicated act. He chooses to be able to get the wealth of detail that is found in a medium format negative and to get a mirrored, square section of what he sees on the camera's matte plate. A roll of film has 12 frames. Then you have to know what is going to happen in order to find the image.
Stig T Karlsson followed the log drivers for three months. He learned. The log driver Mickel becomes a postage stamp. The series was published in 1977 with text by Stig Sjödin. In the book they tell the continuation of the men's lives after the log driving and give an account of the transportation of timber on our roads to the factory. Poetry is exchanged for facts.
