TITLE 25 Lemon Trees,
No Gardeners
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AUTHORS Klara Källström
Thobias Fäldt
Kajsa Ekis Ekman
DESIGN Klara Källström
Thobias Fäldt
1:2:3
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25 Lemon Trees, No Gardeners

In 25 Lemon Trees, No Gardeners, Källström-Fäldt follow up on the media depiction of the Greek crisis. The vantage point is a fake news story published by a number of major European news outlets. The headlines exclaimed that the Evangelismos Hospital in Athens had 45 employed gardeners but no garden, and this came to be a perfect metaphor for a stereotype of Greek wastefulness, one of the presumed reasons behind the Greek economic crisis. The truth of the matter was that the hospital indeed had no garden, but neither did it have any gardeners. Upon closer inspection, it did however have 25 lemon trees.(...)

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Photographs by
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
Final art by Mane Radmanović
Text by Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Text editing by
Johannes Wahlström
Design by KK+TF
(first made for EGAA by 1:2:3, 2011)
Edited by KK+TF
48 pages with 46 black and white plates
20.5 x 30.5 cm / 8.1 x 12 in
Black and white offset
Soft cover and case
Stapled
Edition: 300
ISBN: ISBN: 978-91-980069-8-8
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