Örnsköldsvik

The Örnsköldsvik Photograph

January 2012. An object was photographed in the sky above Örnsköldsvik and the image went out into the country, as such images do — reproduced, argued over, explained and unexplained by turns. The witness described something that stood still where nothing stands still. The proposed answers were the usual ones: aircraft lights, ice crystals, an artefact of the lens. None of them satisfied everyone. What remains is a photograph taken on a cold northern afternoon by someone who was not looking for anything, and who then had to decide what to do about what they had.