Ghostly gas stations

Call them bone-chilling - the abandoned gas stations from eras past.  

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  Photos of and by: Henrik Therese Nerlund

• Call them bone-chilling – the abandoned gas stations from eras past. One such gas station outside of Lund led to more and eventually became a photographic book called “Spökmackar” by Henrik and Therese Nerlund.

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  Abandoned gas station in Tingsryd, Småland. From “Spökmackar” (Ghostly gas stations).

• They have traveled Sweden, documenting the eeriness of abandoned gas stations. The project began 10 years ago, when the couple met and lived in two different cities. A lot of traveling between Malmö and Stockholm ensued, and they quickly got tired of driving the same route all the time.

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  Revisiting abandoned gas stations throughout Sweden and capturing their journey – that’s what Henrik and Therese Nerlund do in their book “Spökmackar” (Ghostly gas stations). The book was released on April 20. ISBN10: 9197984213

• “We found smaller roads instead of the usual highway. At one time we stopped outside of Lund for coffee near an abandoned BP station, where time seemed to have come to a stop, and people seemed to have just left,” says Therese. She and her husband have a preference for the architecture and design of the 1950’s and 60’s. “Many vacations were sacrificed for these nerdy trips,” Therese says with a laugh. They found many of the stations through tips to their blog “Modernisma”, that they began a few years ago. “We all have a relationship to these old gas stations,” says Henrik. “They are part and parcel of our collective memory.”
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• The book, ISBN10: 9197984213 is published by Tangent Förlag