by M.H. Frøslev published with Disko Bay Publishing
Signed by the artist.
Unsettled City is a dark photographic essay on the encounter between a human and a restless metropolis. It is about love and despair in a place where life, at times, can be very uncertain.
The book is a personal depiction of a claustrophobic environment with the cityscape as a framework, captured in the cities of Saint Petersburg and Moscow over the last ten years. Through ninety-five photographs in contrast monochromes and dusty colours, the book unfolds the night as a motif. Here we meet bulldogs, street fights and abandoned roads alongside loving glances, intimate moments and faded buildings, all quietly standing still, waiting for the night to die down and the light to rise again.
Through disquieting atmospheres and raw sensitivity, Unsettled City shows us how the people of the night alternately love and fear both the city and each other. With this book M.H. Frøslev portray feelings of alienation, inequality, and pain on a par with love, intimacy and fascination.
M.H. Frøslev says about the book:
“As a narrator, I am looking for a place I can relate to and that moves me. These photographs are based on my own life and relations. The book is my encounter with the metropolis, but it is also a rediscovery of myself, and an examination of the feelings and relations that are associated with being connected to another person, a time and a place.
I photograph my longing, my presence, my love, and my fears. I photograph because it helps me understand my feelings. For me, Unsettled City is about people finding love in the dark streets of a metropolis, where the night will either save or destroy you.”
Publications:
- Politiken, March 2019 (DK, Danish)
- The Eye of Photography, March 2019 (FR, French/English)
- Dansk Dokumentarisme, March 2019 (DK, Danish)
- Burn Magazine, March 2019 (US, English)
- Weekendavisen, March 2019 (DK, Danish)
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