The exhibition consist of a total of 70 portraits. When he was 9 years old he moved to Denmark, where he graduated with a BA in photojournalism from the Danish School of Media and Journalism. The documentation works both as a way of portraying the emotions of the teenagers, and the physical manifestation of the EPA life as it looks like today, but it is also a way of preserving this unique part of Swedish culture for future generations to come.īenjamin Nørskov was born 1992 in Småland. The cars reflect the personality and interests of the owner - changing colors, scent, and sound as the teenage years pass. In many ways, the EPA tractor itself becomes a window into a unique kind of teenage life, that has never been documented as extensively as in this project. The cars themselves can symbolize the stage between childhood and adulthood where you try everything for the first time – they are a way of experimenting with what adulthood feels like, without quite being there yet. The EPA tractors create a special kind of freedom for the young boys and girls, that suddenly find themselves able to live a more parent-independent life. The law makes it possible to drive a car if you modify it to register as a tractor. A founder of Agence VU he has curated major festivals such as PhotoEspaña, Rencontres d’Arles and Foto Biennale Rotterdam, and his extensive writings on photography have been published worldwide.In the rural areas of Sweden, teenage boys and girls aged 15, 16, and 17 take advantage of a law that wasn't initially intended for them. A winner of the prestigious Scanpix Photography Award in Sweden he has been exhibited throughout Scandinavia as well as in France, Ireland, Portugal, India and USA.Christian Caujolle is one of the France’s leading curators and critics. He has since published two photobooks, Ocean and, most recently, Lowlands. Swedish born Martin Bogren first came to attention in 1996 with his book on the Swedish band, The Cardigans, who he photographed over several years while touring with the band. The solutions they come up are numerous and are closely guarded secrets. ![]() However, the boys are skilled with cars and very creative when it comes to finding ways to bypass these legal and physical restrictions that limit the power and speed of the engines. There is also no suspension on the rear wheels, making them extremely uncomfortable to drive at high speed. Tough rules are in force to restrict the gearing on the cars and their speed is supposed to be limited to 30 km per hour. The EPAs were almost forgotten until youths discovered that the EPA law offered them a way to drive, even as 15 year-olds – and so during the 1960s and 1970s they became increasingly popular in rural areas. During the 1950s EPAs had almost died out as new tractors had come down in price and become more available. These became common in the 1930s and were previously called ‘car-tractors’. The car of choice is known as an EPA tractor, a Swedish term for an older car converted for use as an agricultural machine. That chain of stores are long gone but the name EPA-tractor stuck. Virtually every flavor of every Volvo model ever made, someone somewhere has made into an A Traktor. In Sweden the most appropriate and largely available car suitable for those conditions during post war society was the Volvo PV445, aka Duett. ![]() Strength is measured and proved – as if in a strange ritual mating dance. Hence the cheap tractors got the nickname EPA-tractors. You can distinguish an old school Epa to the newer A-traktors with the shortened wheelbase. It is a game – showing their skills – showing off to the girls. The cars form into a circle as the boys take turns in the middle. The smell of rubber, oil and souped-up engines fills the air when the engines speed. Youngsters meet up on the village outskirts, racing their tractorcars, burning tyremarks into the warm summer asphalt.
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