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slow media. landscapes. stillness.

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Thousand little islands float in the bay near Strängö on the Swedish High Coast

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Cat guardian on the Höga Kusten, Sweden

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Wheat field en route to Burträsk, Sweden.

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Skellefteå churchtown has a very distinct layout and architecture. The church and surrounding cabins play an important role in the community’s life here.

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Moose shuffling about below, invisible in the sea of reed. Balmy night in Gammelstadsviken, Sweden

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Neverending sunsets and neverending boardwalks—late afternoon near Gammelstad, Sweden.

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Very Swedish snack (fika) at the café and museum in Jävrebyn, where you choose your one of a kind coffee cup and saucer from a tower of porcelain.

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Very Swedish composition at Gammelstadviken churchtown.

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Amazing, pristine interiors at the churchtown of Gammelstadviken, Sweden. Churchtowns are unique to Northern Sweden, where a royal edict made churchgoing mandatory in the 17th century. To be better equipped for the hassle involved with leaving the homesteads in the far coners of the parish, locals erected cabins near their church. This is where they kept their Sunday finest, bottles of spirits, the best coffee and tea, and came to spend the weekend, treating their neighbors to fika and gossip. Thus, churchtowns became the social glue in these faraway districts of Sweden, a tradition well-preserved to this day.

Gammelstad also boasts a large collection buildings displaying unique historic architectural styles from the 18th-19th century.

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Swedish summer sunset

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Swedish summer sunset

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Just moss and pine needles, and the invisible scent of Scandinavian glades in the summer, somewhere near Kalix, Sweden

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The Keisarinmaja (Imperial Lodge), the very first mass tourist attraction of Finland

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Dusk over Aavasaksanvaara, Finland

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Sunset over Aavasaksanvaara, Finland

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Home for one night: a closed event tent near Sonka, Finland. Always happily trespassing.