Already as a twelve-year-old boy, Gerry Johansson began to discover photography. In 1962, he joined the ”Village Camera Club” in New York, when he spent a year with relatives in the US. On his return to Sweden, he received insight into professional photography as an assistant to industrial photographer Stig Sjöstedt, in Gothenburg. At the beginning of the 1980s, Johansson created a photographic documentation that attracted a large amount of attention, when he visited the locations that landscape photographer C.G.Rosenberg (1883-1957) had photographed 50 years earlier. In the summer of 1932, Rosenberg had made a journey on behalf of the Swedish Tourist Association and photographed the coastal landscape of Halland, in western Sweden. Johansson’s idea was to visit exactly the same sites and to create up-to-date counterparts of the same scenes once used by Rosenberg, under similar light conditions and with the same photographic cut. Like Rosenberg, Johansson had the eye of the landscape photographer when he pointed his camera at the urban landscape. Industrial buildings devoid of workers, car parks and shopping centers were all expertly represented, with maximum sharpness and detail. The inquisitiveness involved in surveying the modern cultural landscape has also led to travel beyond the borders of Sweden, to such countries as Japan and the US. When Gerry Johansson had an exhibition in Stockholm a couple of years ago, Peder Alton, journalist at Sweden’s leading daily, Dagens Nyheter, wrote: ”Gerry preserves a photographic genre that is beginning to disappear as photographers increasingly use the support of other forms of art. Johansson’s small black and white squares are based on a series of everyday discoveries in which anything at all can happen. Over the years, he has devoted himself to documenting the Swedish cultural landscape and this work will be one of the major photographic treasures of twentieth-century Swedish culture. Gerry Johansson’s prints are the best that can currently be seen in the field of Swedish photography.” During the winter of 2000-01, he made a journey to the Antarctic with the Swedish Polar Expedition. He documented the Arctic landscape using his large-format camera and the resulting photographs will be shown at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2003. Exhibitions 1981 Galleri 1+1, Helsingborg, Sweden. 1982 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 1985 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 1988 Galleria Finnfoto, Helsinki, Finland 1992 Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Roséum, Malmö, Sweden 1999 Billedhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden 2003 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Books 1981 Gerry Johansson. Fotografier 1976-81. 1985 Halland. Trettiotal och åttital. Fyra Förläggare. 1995 Amerikabilder 1962-93. BILDiBOK. 1996 Betong. Malmö Konsthall. 1998 Amerika. Byggförlaget. CV 1945 Born in Örebro, Sweden. 1957 Started to take photographs. 1962 Graduated from high school. Lived for one year with relatives in Essex Fells, New Jersey, USA. Became a member of the Village Camera Club in New York. 1963 Returned to parents in Sweden. 1964 Moved to Gothenburg to work as assistant to photographer Stig Sjöstedt. 1966 Began education as graphic designer at school of Designs and Crafts, Gothenburg. Graduated in 1969. 1971 Began working as designer for the Swedish photography magazine Populär Fotografi. 1972 Founded, together with three colleagues, the publishing company Fyra Förläggare, publishing the photographic magazines Aktuell Fotografi and Album, as well as a series of photographic books presenting Swedish documentary photographers. 1982 First one-man exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. 1985 Left the Fyra Förläggare publishing company to begin working as a freelance photographer. 1989 Participated in the pilot study for Swedish documentary project EKODOC 90. 1999 Took photographs for Japan Today project.