{"id":428126,"date":"2026-05-06T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428126\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:25:08","slug":"albert-elm-captures-our-world-at-its-most-absurd-through-a-photographic-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428126\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Elm captures our world at its most absurd through a photographic autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Danish photographer Albert Elm<\/a> was growing up, he moved around the country a lot, often having to adapt to new people and places. In a world of foreign objects and new experiences, it was the camera that was the first thing to feel natural to him. Albert\u2019s newest photography book This Much Is True<\/a> captures the world filled with low-humming oddness, monolithic buildings, strange textures and life as if it\u2019s from a faraway planet. It\u2019s like looking through the eyes of his nomadic childhood \u2013 and it\u2019s his continued excitement about the world that keeps his work invigorating.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe title suggests that it\u2019s time to stop and reflect \u2013 to move on and say: \u2018Now at least I know this much is true\u2019 \u2013 which is hard to be certain about in a \u2018post-truth era\u2019,\u201d says Albert. One of the most enduring and attractive qualities about photography, arguably, is that it\u2019s objective, no matter how beguiling the subject matter may be. The shutter opens, takes in exactly what is in front of it and stores it without embellishment. It\u2019s difficult to take in the Earth of This Much Is True \u2013 it\u2019s almost alien-like. In the post-truth era, as Albert calls it, what can be taken at face value? Tiny glasses with dentures hanging off the rim, bright green hedges carved into the shapes of dolphins like Edward Scissorhands, an ominously beheaded deer, a giant snow-sculpture shaped like castle walls. The viewer finds oneself constantly wondering, \u2018Where am I?\u2019<\/p>\n