Born in Karlstad in 1969, JH Engström is a Swedish photographer and video artist. As a child his family moved from provincial Sweden to Paris when he was 10. In 1993 he settled in Stockholm and shared a lab with Anders Petersen whilst attending Gothenburg University school of photography, graduating in 1997. Engström then moved to New York between 1998–2000, where he spent time at Robert Frank’s studio. In 2012, JH Engström and Margot Wallard established the first one-year long photography workshop, Atelier Smedsby. His work has been exhibited widely, including The Finnish Museum of Photography; Värmlands Museum, Sweden; Hôtel Fontfreyde, Clermont-Ferrand, France; FOAM Amsterdam; National Media Museum, UK, and the Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg. His work is in the collections of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Musée Nicéphore Nièpce, France. He has authored numerous publications, and four films and videos. He was awarded the Leica Oskar Barnack Prize 2015, the Golden Letter (La Résidence) 2012, the Rencontre d’Arles photobook prize 2009 and shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photographic Prize in 2005, amongst others. Engström lives and works between Paris and Värmland, Sweden.