EXCELLENT, POWERFUL, VERY SOUGHT-AFTER COLOR PHOTOBOOK by Swedish photographer Hannah Modigh - in BRANDNEW CONDITION + SIGNED. "By way of my photos, I`m trying to get rid of the feeling of timeless vacuum which hit me during my sojourn in St Charles." - Hannah Modigh - Signed by the artist. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. New, unread, mint; only opened once for signature. COLLECTOR'S COPY. PLEASE ENJOY the ONE-SELLER-AUCTION by 5Uhr30.com (Ecki Heuser, Cologne, Germany) - with INTERNATIONAL PHOTOBOOKS from my PRIVATE COLLECTION and from RECENT ACQUISITATIONS. "Hidden by fog and concealed by the beautiful Appalachian mountains, the people pictured in this book and their struggle against poverty are invisible to the surrounding world. The photos in Hannah Modigh`s first book are taken 2006 in and around the small town of St Charles in Virginia, USA - a community marked by generations of coal-mining in subterranean mines. Today, unemployment there is vast. "Hillbilly heroin" is a slang term for the prescription painkiller Oxycontin, often used by miners. There is a wide-spread black market for this drug, which in high dosage has a heroin-like effect." (from the publisher) This is a lot by 5Uhr30.com (Ecki Heuser, Cologne, Germany). 5Uhr30.com guarantees detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% protection, 100% insurance and combined shipping worldwide. Journal, Stockholm. 2010. First edition, first printing. Hardcover (as issued). 247 x 236 mm. 172 pages. Photos: Hannah Modigh. Text: Billy Edd Wheeler, Gösta Flemming, Johan Lindberg. Text in English. Fantastic, very sought-after photobook by Hannah Modigh in perfect condition - signed by the artist. "Hannah Modigh was born in Stockholm in 1980 and spent her childhood in India and Österlen, Sweden. She studied photography in Copenhagen, Biskops Arnö and the Royal College of Art in Stockholm. Her work have won multiple awards, including the TT's Great Photography Prize and the Lars Tunbjörk Prize. Modigh's photography is characterised by a sense of fine detail, intimate portraits. She has created six poetic photo books; Hillbilly Heroin, Honey 2010, a dying coal mining town in Appalachia, Sunday mornin comin down 2012, young men working in the sex industry in San Francisco, Hurricane season a search for storms, behind doors, inside people, taken in Louisiana. Portraits of Swedish youth in search of identity in The Milky Way. Delta it's about time, a search for traces that depict the presence of an absence, where life and death vibrate under a fragile border with the outside world. The most recent work is Archive of longing, a series of portraits from a shelter Hannah worked for many years. Modigh's work have been exhibited throughout Europe and the USA. Her work is represented at Moderna Museet in Sweden, which is one of Europe’s leading museums for modern and contemporary art." (website Hannah Modigh)