The new book by Carl Abrahamsson is called Sunshine Snowbirds – Photographs from Florida, and that’s exactly what it is!
Swedish author-photographer Carl Abrahamsson traveled all over Florida in an attempt at understanding whether the “sunshine state” is cursed or blessed – or perhaps a bit of both? His book is a colorful journey through exotic prettiness and terrifying weirdness. Swinging manically between old-school styles and contemporary vulgarity, Florida never disappoints – a photographer’s paradise in so many ways.
From the Florida Keys to Disney World, from Miami to St Petersburg, and from the Everglades straight into a loose mind-frame that will be dazzled by bright sunlight and then cooled down by swift “sun-showers”… Florida is genuinely a weird and wonderful place!
With over 200 photographs in this book, Abrahamsson gives you a peek of what it’s like to be there, in full technicolor glory.
““It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Dickens called it and Carl Abrahamsson depicts it – perfectly… After 11 years here I still wonder why – an REM dreamscape perhaps? Strange tricks of light dance here – the ugliest of strip malls turn suddenly heavenly magical as the ever changing eye blinks… it’s the ugliest, cruelest, most unforgiving place and the most beautiful, kind, compassionate place from minute to minute – and those minutes be regardless cinematic, humbling, anarchic – and always endlessly weird… and as we know, weird can be wonderful, weird can be scary, but weird is rarely boring. Carl’s collection of works here conveys succinctly and stunningly that bipolar exquisite/ excruciating blink shot flash between the surreal worlds we call home.” – Little Annie Bandez
“Carl’s unique vision has helped me see my home in a new way… So many things I never would have noticed or come to appreciate without him.” – Vanessa Sinclair
