A Minor Wrong Doing - signed
A Minor Wrong Doing - signed
A Minor Wrong Doing - signed
A Minor Wrong Doing - signed
A Minor Wrong Doing - signed
A Minor Wrong Doing - signed

A Minor Wrong Doing - signed

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63mm x 210mm / Softcover with embossing and silver ink on black paper / 288 pages / Design and editing by Henrik Malmström and Misha Kominek / Limited Edition of 375 copies / July 2015 Kominek books /
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Slowly but steadily we become immersed in what Henrik
 Malmström saw and photographed from the window of his
 living room. The pages of A Minor Wrongdoing unfold as a
hypnotic sequence of candid shots taken at the
 neighbourhood of St. Georg in Hamburg, between 2011
and 2014. Hundreds of them, they record the last remains 
of street life in an urban area that is currently under going 
fierce gentrification after recent official law enforcement 
against street-based prostitution. Malmström used a cheap
 digital camera forcing its ISO levels to reproduce in each
 scene the raw effect of a surveillance cam. The grainy
 monochromatic material of his voyeuristic enterprise has
 been put together in this voluminous book replicating a 
messy police report archive. Printed in sharp dots, the grain 
adds a grade of unprecedented abstraction and beauty to
 the sequence whereas the quantity of images breaks with
the conventional linear story structure. There is an uncanny
feel in it. And obsession: the unconfessed obsession of a
photographer who happened to be in the right place at the
right time. We do not get to see much of what he
 photographed but we can still imagine pretty much
 happening in this obscure underworld of transactions.

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Finnish photographer Henrik Malmström (b.1983) currently lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work is often the result of the interaction with his immediate surroundings. In 2010 he self-published On Borrowed Time, his first book of photographs. In the same year he moved to Hamburg, Germany, where he developed and completed his two projects “A Minor Wrongdoing” and “Life is One Live it Well” by 2014. He is the co-founder and curator of the Müllkellergalerie, a premium art gallery located in a garbage room in Hamburg, Germany. In 2015 he co-founded the online platform Vaciarte, that deals with arts and politics in Buenos Aires.