my books
War and Love
- about immigration into the Nordic CountriesBesides the 80 portraits, the book contains 43 panoramic photographs. The panoramic photographs illustrate traces of immigration, particularly places where foreigners meet our society.
Point of view
- In contemplating Henrik Saxgrens photography you lose the limitation of your sense of self and experience that of other. It is both humbling and exalting, for this great photographer leads you through aspects of people coming to terms with life.
Solomons House
Saxgrens powerful photographs ask us to examine the pain of an entire generation of children at risk. In the end I would say that these pictures obligate us to respond, to do more than simply stare.
They demand that we look for an answer.- Bianca Jagger
Human right activist.
Pylonia
-, the mental bridge is at least as important as the one of concrete and steel, and it is interesting (and encouraging) to follow Henrik Saxgrens description of how the bridge came about, because he has a sense for its spiritual or metapsysical dimension.
- Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author.
Eftersyn
Private photo albums are always fascinating – also when they present professional photographers’ snapshots. Henrik Saxgren’s new book, Eftersyn (the titel can be translated to ‘Re-view’) is no exception.
Rune Gade, KATALOG