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All people are beautiful when they work. Respectfully, Jean Hermanson photographed workers, mainly of the Swedish engineering and industrial divisions, and the images later became part of our modern cultural heritage.

All people are beautiful when they work, the photographer Jean Hermanson meant. Respectfully, he captured workers in poetic images that would become part of Sweden's modern cultural heritage. Jean wanted to tell about man and its conditions in the Swedish industry, but regretted that he never recorded their names. In August 2012, Jean dies and his assistant decides to continue his work.

Respectfully, Jean Hermanson photographed workers, mainly of the Swedish engineering and industrial divisions. The images later became part of our modern cultural heritage, and Jean himself was considered to be our premier working photographer. Jean died in August 2012. He leaves several unfinished projects, an archive dating from the 1960s until today, and hundreds of thousands of negatives and paper copies from 40 years of darkroom work with motifs from around the world.—Ulf Kjell Gür