"At the age of ten I moved from the Swedish countryside to Paris with my parents, and the first thing I saw was the Charles de Gaulle airport. As a teenager I traveled a lot between Paris and Sweden, and therefore spent a lot of time at CDG. I was fascinated already then. The whole environment, the ambiance. It's really a fascinating airport. Like a fantasy landscape... CDG is connected to a big part of my past, and also came to signify big changes in my life as a kid. But what made this project interesting as well is how the world, and maybe especially airports, changed after 9/11. They are no longer what they used to be. Before, they tended to represent freedom, possibilities, openness. Now they have come to be a place where fear is very strong." —JH Engström Aperture is pleased to offer this very special limited-edition photograph from Swedish photographer JH Engström. A survey of his work was originally featured in Aperture magazine, issue no. 190. In this photograph, part of his most recent series and book CDG/JHE (Steidl/GUN, 2007), Engström focuses on the Charles de Gaulle airport (whose flight code is CDG). Sixty-six photographs comprise this body of work, photographed in color and then printed using a special process that renders the print with a overall cast of gray, creating haunting monochromes. Martin Jaeggi, in his commentary on Engström's work, states that "the printing endows the photographs of the almost deserted airport with a haunting atmosphere, at once nostalgic and apocalyptic." For this project, Engström spent three weeks isolated in an airport hotel, photographing the spaces and terminals of Charles de Gaulle. His images capture luggage carts, plastic chairs (as in this photograph), parking garages, and weary travelers. As Jaeggi writes, "The series departs from the celebration of subjectivity that has defined much of Engström's work so far and provides an almost abstract definition of the existential homelessness and displacement that is at the heart of JH Engström's work—the source of its tenderness and beauty, as well as its power to unsettle."