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I will regularly publish here the latest news concerning my work as a photographer and translator: news from ongoing projects, the progress being made on upcoming photo books, the latest writer portraits, any newly published writer portraits in the press, current translations in progress, etc.

Recently published 2023 : 10 writers.

Laurent Denimal
Nov 11, 2023

New books of the ten following writers has been recently published in French and Swedish; Lídia Jorge, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Mohsin Hamid, Rachid Benzine, Jan Henrik Swahn, Agneta Pleijel, Jaume Cabré, Johan Theorin, Guillaume Lefebvre and Alex Ahndoril.

You will find all the portraits of these writers at the Opale Agency

You can even see the complete collection of writers portrait here.

Lídia Jorge *

Misericordia

Métailié

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Systrarna

Albert Bonniers Förlag

Mohsin Hamid

Le dernier homme blanc

Grasset

Rachid Benzine

Les silences des pères

Seuil

Jan Henrik Swahn *

Vattenläkaren

Lava Förlag

Agneta Pleijel *

Sniglar och snö

Norstedts

Jaume Cabré

Consumés par le feu

Actes Sud

Johan Theorin

Ristmärken

Wahlström & Widstrand

Guillaume Lefebvre

Piège mortel en haute mer

Aubane Editions

Alex Ahndoril

Jag kommer att hitta nyckeln

Albert Bonniers Förlag

The writers name with an * are represented in the book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits", Carlssons 2021.

Photo Book Fair 2023.

Laurent Denimal
Oct 22, 2023

Have you ever dreamed of meeting

French gardener and photographer, Laurent Denimal,

who has lived in Sweden for three decades,

and who has contributed, among other things,

three very beautiful books of photographs

on three of the most emblematic parks and excursion spots in Stockholm?

I will be present during the two days devoted by SSF

to the Photography Book Fair in Stockholm,

on October 27 and 28,

where the latest book, Gröna Lund, will be presented.

photo Hendrik Zeitler, Fotobokfestival 2022

Friday, October 27th, 12:00 - 19:00

Saturday, October 28th, 12:00 - 16:00

Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Plan 5

This will be a unique opportunity to see the three works relating to these green spaces brought together on the same table; Gröna Lund, Djurgården and Millesgården, and to be able to discuss with the photographer his original working method and also about the stages that were followed from the inception of the project to the final production of the book.

Gröna Lund (LDP, 2022), foreword Laurent Denimal.

While working as a gardener at Stockholm's Gröna Lund tivoli, I carried a wooden pinhole panorama camera loaded with 35-mm film around with me.

An artist's edition of fifteen autographed copies is presented in a slipcase with one numbered and signed colour print.

Djurgården, in the King's Park (Carlssons, 2014), foreword Per Wästberg.

Djurgården, which once upon a time was the royal deer park in Stockholm, is today the world's first national city park. It forms a green oasis just across the water from the city centre. I spent a season working in the park as a gardener, and had my Polaroid camera with me every day.

Polaroid photography provides unique, small-format images without a negative, limited to a single original photograph. The book "In the King's Park" presents a selection of motifs that were caught in an instant.

Millesgården, in the Sculptor's Park (Carlssons, 2008), foreword Agneta Pleijel.

The photo book Millesgården, in the Sculptor's Park takes you for a walk through the sculpture park in the grounds of the house formerly belonging to Swedish sculptor Carl Milles (1875-1955), located on the island of Lidingö, outside Stockholm.

An artist's edition is presented in a black slipcase with one numbered and signed original print.

Watch two shorts clips presenting the new book

Gröna Lund

and

the Artist Edition

music Johan Hellqvist

Five other books published by Laurent Denimal will be also exhibited

The books are :

Tour de Stockholm

LDP Editions 2011, text Laurent Denimal

Saint-Valery-sur-Somme

LDP 2015, foreword Éléonore Lelong

J'y suis encore / I am still here

LDP Editions 2019, text Laurent Denimal

Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits

Carlssons 2020, foreword Josyane Savigneau

Swedish Country Churches

LDP Editions 2022, text Philippe Bouquet

Welcome to the

Photo Book Fair 2023!

Friday, October 27th, 12:00 - 19:00

Saturday, October 28th, 12:00 - 16:00

Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Plan 5

Stockholm, Sweden

Pavlovka Pinhole Fest 2023.

Laurent Denimal
Jul 19, 2023

The Pavlovka pinhole fest is organized annually by the Pavlovka Art Gallery located in Kiev, Ukraine, since 2017.

This is an international festival dedicated to pinhole photography with authors from almost all corners of the world.

I will be part of the Pavlovka pinhole fest exhibition this summer, together with 60 others photographers.

I will show three colors photographs from the photo book Gröna Lund.

Format: 233x130 mm, 96 pages, 63 scanned photographs from colour negatives

4/4 printing

Paper: Munken lynx 170g (insert), Munken lynx 400g (cover), open spine binding

ISBN 9789152730478

All the photographs are captured with a pinhole panoramic camera (frame 24×56 mm), on 35mm colour film.

The amazing lines, contours and silhouettes of Gröna Lund are surprisingly well-suited to being captured by pinhole camera – the amusement park is a huge assemblage of infrastructure, with the myriad overlapping and criss-crossing angles of the various buildings and wooden and metal structures, the seemingly endless ingenious confluences and crossings of beams, tracery and buttresses.