Shinrin-yoku – book

Description

In a world that gets harder and harder and where we the last couple of years have endured several global crises like the pandemic, financial issues and where climate- and environmental issues are probably the most severe of them all it has become more and more important to find ways to feel good. In Japan they created something called Shinrin-yoku, forest bath, in the eighties. It was created to cope with a stressful work life but it works just as well for other stress factors.

The book is the result of my visits and thoughts in various forests the last two years. Both in the vicinity of my home but also as far away as Mount Mgahinga in Uganda’s mist covered Virunga mountains.

The preface is written by Anders Geidemark in a very poetic manner, but Swedish only.

Award winners

The book has been awarded a silver in the category Book/Nature at Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023, a bronze in the category Book/Nature at Budapest International Foto Awards 2023, a gold in Photo Book/Nature at PX3 Prix de la photographie Paris 2024 and a honorable mention in Book/Nature at International Photography Awards 2024

Among the images in the book are a number of award winners:

• Synapses, Silver at New York Photography Awards 2023
• Forest bath, Gold at European Photography Awards 2023
• Destiny’s steed, Gold at European Photography Awards 2023 and Honorable mention at New York Photography Awards 2022
• Reaching out, Honorable mention at European Photography Awards 2023
• Yellow, Honorable mention at European Photography Awards 2023
• The forest & me, Honorable mention at European Photography Awards 2023
• Rush hour, Honorable mention at European Photography Awards 2023
• Hrafninn flýgur, Honorable mention at European Photography Awards 2023
• Morning meeting, Honorable mention at European Photography Awards 2023
• Ancient woods, Honorable mention at European Photography Awards 2023
• Last scream, Honorable mention at European Photography Awards 2023
• Messy mood, Honorable mention at Monovisions Awards 2023
• Chimp grooming, silver at New York Photography Awards 2022
• My turf, silver at New York Photography Awards 2022
• Furry nature, bronze at Swedish Nature Photorgraphy Championships (naturfoto-sM) 2022.

Variants

The book is available in two variants:

• Standard – olive green cover
• Limited – moss green cover, numbered and signed limited edition och signerad begränsad upplaga (100 st). Contains 2 Fine Art Prints sized 15×20 cm.

Special combos

For a limited time you can buy the book in the special combos, with the previous book In the twilight zone:

• Standard combo – 1 Shinrin-yoku standard and 1 In the twilight zone standard. 145 kr rebate.
• Limited combo – 1 Shinrin-yoku limited and 1 In the twilight zone limited. 195 kr rebate.