Books

 

Medical Records of a Small town / Pikkukaupungin sairaskertomus

Kerber Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7356-0390-6

A story of a man, both a father and a medical doctor known to the most as an eccentric with morbid humor and no manners. Ville Lenkkeri has collected the stories and anecdotes of the inhabitants of his old small home town, the patients of his father Dr Lenkkeri. Put together the domestic and public tales form a picture of a man known by everyone, and yet by close to nobody. 156 pages, 86 photographs and good load of texts. Finnish+English.

Excerpt from the book (pdf), pages 46-61

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The Petrified Forest / Kivettynyt metsä

Kerber Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7356-0257-2

Decades later the author returns to his old hometown deep in the Finnish woods,and to his childhood memories. This book is a study on the nature of truth. It seems that sometimes fiction is the way to come closest to truth when discussing a personal experience. 160 pages, 93 images, 18 short texts. English + Finnish.

Excerpt from the book (pdf), pages 10-37

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Listen to The Pieces of a Puzzle, one of the stories in the book. Written by Ville Lenkkeri, read by Rob Egan.

 

 

Existence Doubtful

Kerber Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86678-975-3

The book is combined of two equal and interwoven parts; images and an extensive subjective text written by the author.

208 pages, 108 images.

 

Excerpt from the book (pdf), pages 100-113

ED press/presentation (pdf)

ED reviewed at Svenska Dagbladet 5. Jan. 2015

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The Place of no Roads

Hatje Cantz, 2009, ISBN 978-3 7757-2399-2

Photographs from Svalbard are combined in this book with the author’s vision of a utopia having once existed in an abandoned mining town.

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Have a look at the book.

 

 

Reality in the Making

Hatje Cantz, 2006, ISBN 978-3 7757-1880-6

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Have a look at the book.