For four decades, beginning in 1973, the photographer and author Jens S. Jensen (1946–2015) documented life in the Gothenburg suburb of Hammarkullen. He got to know the people who lived there and via his pictures and interviews, and we get close to the young people who grew up in one of the Million Programme’s concrete suburbs. When his work first began, Jens S. Jensen was a newly graduated architect and an important motivation was to make the social structures of society and how the large-scale solutions affected people’s everyday lives and dreams visible and top critically examine them. He also wanted to look beyond the media image of the “suburban man” and give a more nuanced portrayal of both the place and those who lived there.
