
What Sort of Life Is This
- Publisher
- The Ice Plant
- Year
- 2017
- ISBN
- 978-0-9897859-8-3
- Specifications
- Hardcover with jacket
20.3 × 27.9 cm
128 pages
56 color / 16 BW photographs
Edition of 750 copies
Shortlisted, Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award 2017 (First PhotoBook)
What does the world look like, what feelings does it stimulate, why do we photograph it so urgently? Since 2009 Danish photographer Albert Elm has pursued his curiosity about human activity with restless energy, crossing time zones, boarding the Trans-Siberian Railway, travelling alone in Dubai, China and India, or just walking through his neighbourhood in Copenhagen. All shot on 35mm film, the book remixes distant and local journeys into narrative fragments and surreal compositions, equalising the exotic and the banal as if every picture were made in the same mystifying place: the world itself.