All pictures © Hans Malm
I left my home town Gustavsberg in the mid eighties. The old hub of the industrial community, the porcelain factory, had by then lost most of its importance to the area. When I moved back twenty years later in 2005 new winds were blowing and Gustavsberg is now one of the fastest growing communities in Sweden.
The Gustavsberg of my ancestors, who came here in the 19th century, was not the place for those who were scared of the dark. Today you can barely see the stars on the night sky due to the lights from the factory, the supermarket parking lot and the headlights from the cars passing down the highway.
Gustavsberg is a community that is subject to constant change, and these photographs are therefor quickly becoming history. So even if the exposure time is between five and twenty minutes, all photographs can in a way be considered as snapshots.
