Language: Swedish
A found photo treasure - and a new one
At the beginning of the last century, the nature photographer and writer Bengt Berg came to Stora Karlsö and was captured by the island's exotic birdlife and dramatic nature. A hundred years later, his forgotten picture treasure was found by the photographer Roine Magnusson, who saw to it that it was once again shown to the public. In addition, he took his camera with him to Stora Karlsö to take new portraits of the island, in the company of the authors Åsa and Mats Ottosson. Stora Karlsö - pictures from a paradise is a book for everyone who has already fallen in love with the island, but also for everyone who has not yet been there - and still lives in the delusion that you have to go to distant continents to find your own paradise island. There is something special about islands. When you stay on an island of reasonable size, you can get a strong feeling of being in a world of your own, a little apart from everything else.
Stora Karlsö evokes just such feelings. Even when you come from the mainland to Gotland, it feels a bit like coming abroad. Then taking the boat from Gotland to Stora Karlsö is the start of an even more extraordinary experience. The island is the first area to be nature protected in Sweden - and one of the first in the world. There are no permanent residents here, but tens of thousands of birds in the teeming bird mountains. A rarely seen wealth of orchids blooms here (what would paradise be without Adam and Eve?). Here there are barren moors, long cobblestone beaches and one of the country's most beautifully located lighthouses on the plateau above the plunging slopes of Västerberget. Stora Karlsö is simply like nothing else. There are 221,800 islands in Sweden's seas and lakes, and Stora Karlsö is perhaps the most exotic of them all.
Product information
Authors: Roine Magnusson, Åsa Ottosson & Mats Ottosson
Photographers: Roine Magnusson & Bengt Berg
Edition: 1
ISBN: 9789187283574
Language: Swedish
Weight: 860 grams
Released: 2015
Publisher: Votum Gullers Förlag
Pages: 159