The exhibition constitutes a trilogy that began with the already classic book Landet utom sig ("Country Beside Itself", 1993). In this project Lars Tunbjörk investigates the reality of our time as it has taken shape in working life and leisure, in public space, and now finally also in the Home.

In a way unparalleled in the work of any other Swedish photographer, Tunbjörk has studied and photographed the society that has emerged over the last two decades. This is an epoch in which the Swedish welfare state, with its firmly anchored architecture and tradition, was vulgarised into a highly commercialised and internationalised consumer society, and where the blue and yellow of the flag are no longer recognisable.

In the international photographic arena, many photographers of Tunbjörk's generation have been wrestling with similar problems in their own native countries, for instance, in England, Japan, Germany and the USA. But few have succeeded as Tunbjörk has in combining humour with warmth; intelligent observation with elements of a virtually apocalyptic sense of the future.

- If we want, we can choose simply to take pleasure in Lars Tunbjörk's Office, or solely in seeing the pictures' capacity to arouse our critical laughter. Equally, we can view them as what they actually are, i.e. an important document of the world of work at the beginning of the 2000s. A document that historians of tomorrow will undoubtedly study with astonishment, is how the well-known French critic Christian Caujolle's commented on Tunbjörk's Office project.

But Tunbjörk's photography is also to a very great extent a personal journey. Born in the detached-housing district of Dammsvedjan in Borås in 1956 - an environment that, if any, exemplified the Swedish welfare state - Tunbjörk has often referred to his upbringing in his photography. A sense of loss and sadness marks his new project Home, which to a great extent has to do with the way life is. Much of the humorous element that was an important part of Tunbjörk's earlier work has been replaced in Home by a registering of the frequently overlooked; the by-passed, which with the aid of the camera gives us keys to the feelings that are awoken in the photographer in the encounter with the characteristic environments of his childhood and upbringing.

Lars Tunbjörk began his photographic journey as a 15-year-old pupil on work experience at Borås Tidning newspaper 1971. Via a freelance career, he got a job at Stockholms-Tidningen newspaper when it was revived in 1981-1984. As a photographer he attracted a lot of attention, and over the course of a few years, his subtle pictures became a recognised concept in Swedish photojournalism. "Doing a Tunbjörkare" was the surest recipe for taking the prize in the Swedish everyday life section of the Swedish Picture of the Year Award - Sweden's annual press-photography competition. Few Swedish photographers have influenced so many colleagues in such a short time as Lars Tunbjörk specifically did with his reportage in Stockholms-Tidningen, Metallarbetaren, Månadsjournalen and Upp&Ner. It was with the book Landet utom sig/Country Beside Itself (1993) that Tunbjörk also made his international breakthrough. Today, he is a frequent contributor to leading journals all over the world, with the New York Times Magazine as one of his principal channels of communication. Lars Tunbjörk is a member of the VU' photography agency in Paris and is represented by Galleri Nordenhake in Berlin.

The Office/Kontor book (Journal/Max Ström) is complemented by Home (Steidl) recently released to coincide with this exhibition.