Sign of the Times
Jan Jörnmark is a shooter who specializes in photographing abandoned industrial sites and other deserted places in Sweden. One of our sharp-eyed readers noticed this particularly poignant building on Jan's site.
It's the one-time world headquarters of Hasselblad. Former medium-format giant Hasselblad optimistically moved into its brand new, ultra-modern, custom-designed building in the fall of 2003. A mere two years later, following Hassie's absorption by Imacon, the facility sat empty and abandoned.
Hasselblad history display, stripped of camerasI wonder if any of our Swedish readers know what the building is used for today?
Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON
Featured comment by Björn Ylinenpää: Hasselblad has moved to smaller facilities in the same industrial park. Today the Hasselblad building is used by SVT and SR, the government-owned public-service TV and radio companies, Sweden's largest broadcasters.
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1 Comments:
Jan has assembled a fascinating set of walk-through snapshots of the former Hasselblad HQ. Abandoned buildings always seem to be a bit haunting to me, perhaps because they convey imaginary echoes of their former occupants. But this empty, hardly-used Hasselblad hulk is even creepier than some rotting 19th century asylum to me. Such a large, expensive facility abandoned so prematurely is a startling monument to egotism and the myopic cloud that egotism and group-think can create. Perhaps this Hasselblad artifact is more like a rotting asylum than first glance would suggest.
Nevertheless, I'm glad to see that the facility has been assumed by another organization. Wonderful work, Jan.
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