The haunting stillness of Swedish winter serves as the inspiration and backdrop for Markus Naarttijärvi’s debut monograph A Surrender.
Shot over 1,000 consecutive days, Naarttijärvi navigates spaces stuck in a liminal twilight — somewhere between death and rebirth, where human industry dissolves into nature’s embrace. Each photograph is a step in a journey of appreciation between growth and decay, society and wilderness, resistance and surrender.
With patience and persistence, Naarttijärvi transforms collapse and new growth into a meditation on impermanence while reminding us that sometimes, the only way out is through.
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120-pages
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69 color images on uncoated paper
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23 × 31 cm (~9 × 12 in)
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Chipboard Cover, debossed foil stamps
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Tipped-in image
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Stitched open spine
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Printed by KOPA in Lithuania
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Edition of 500