Tokhang- The Philippine Drug War

Tokhang is a word in the Philippine Bisaya meaning “to approach and talk”. It also has become synonymous with the Duterte administration’s deadly war against drugs. Photographer Olof Jarlbro takes us inside the drug war to the grim murder scenes around metro Manila. But Jarlbro’s photography doesn’t end there : instead, in search of answers, he meets up with the relatives of those loved ones that have been brutally killed.

Photographs and text by Olof Jarlbro. Rough dog press 2021 17x 24cm, Hardcover, 
Language English. ISBN 978-91-981210-4-9.

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Refuge: takes us to the war in Syria and to the safe boarders of Europe, in the Bulgarian refugee camps. Despite the absence of war, the conditions in the camps are harsh and the future for the refugees seems not as bright as they have imagined it before crossing the borders of Europe. Bulgaria was not by any means ready to handle hundreds of refugees, certainly not many thousands. Jarlbro’s photographs depict the life in the camps, his sincere and straight-forward approach to people gets him inside the refugees’ small quarters they call home. In Jarlbro’s fifth book he documents every aspect of being in a refuge premises and being a refugee in Europe, photographing people’s sorrow and searching for glimmers of hope in their grim situation.

Photographs and text by Olof Jarlbro, Foreword by Leif Stenberg, Introduction by Antoan Bozhinov, Rough Dog Press 2015, 141pp, 67 Black and White illustrations,
17x 24cm, Tritone, Softcover,
Language English.

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Syria: The War Within take us to a wartorn Aleppo a year after the Arabic spring arrived to Syria. Photographer Olof Jarlbro has entered the country illegally and is covering the insurgent FSA – Free Syrian Armystruggles against the regime. Jarlbro’s straightforward approach takes him directly to the different frontlines in Syria’s largest city where he spends his time with the rebellion. Despite the nonstop present of life and death, Jarlbro takes his time to make portraits, images that reveal the human aspect of war. Jarlbro’s photographs depict the core of the Arabian spring in Syria.Photographs and text by Olof Jarlbro.

Rough Dog Press 2013
121pp, 58 Black and White illustrations,
17x 24cm, Tritone, Softcover ,
Language English.

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Syria: The War Within: take us to a wartorn Aleppo a year after the Arabic spring arrived to Syria. Photographer Olof Jarlbro has entered the country illegally and is covering the insurgent FSA – Free Syrian Armystruggles against the regime. Jarlbro’s straightforward approach takes him directly to the different frontlines in Syria’s largest city where he spends his time with the rebellion. Despite the nonstop present of life and death, Jarlbro takes his time to make portraits, images that reveal the human aspect of war. Jarlbro’s photographs depict the core of the Arabian spring in Syria.

Photographs and text by Olof Jarlbro.
Rough Dog Press 2013
121pp, 58 Black and White illustrations,
17x 24cm, Tritone, Hardcover,
Language English.

To buy the book please visit Here

Nepal and Mao takes us to a country in which peace was declared many years ago. But somehow there is still tension in the country. Old royalist that won’t step down from army posts, constant strikes and protests in the capital. Some regions with ethnic majorities have started to question the Maoist and Nepal’s control and to strive after their own state and independence. In Jarlbro’s third book about Nepal, he travels across the country in buses and off-road vehicles meeting Maoists at their camps in the jungle and up in mountain, following the tensions throughout the country, visiting communist rally and riots. Underneath the chaos and political standpoint, Jarlbro photographs do not reveal the soldier but the person behind the uniform.

Photographs and text by Olof Jarlbro
Rough dog Press, 2011. 149pp,
Duetone 78 Black and White illustrations,
15x21cm,. Hardcover, Language English.

The book, Stonefactory takes us to two small stonemills in the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. The photographer Olof Jarlbro shows us a world were time has stood still, a place were manual labour is still cheaper then the work of machines, and a place were the workers homes are small metal shacks located on the grounds of the factory. This book portrays the daily lives of the families working and living in the stone factories. The photographs taken by Jarlbro reveal human grace at the border of despair.

Photographs and text by Olof Jarlbro.
Rough dog press 2010 72 pp, Duetone,
35 Black and White illustrations.
21×23.5 Hardcover, Language English, French, Czech

The Falling Kingdom takes us to a country in many transformations. The unstable political situation in Nepal has had a major impact on the infrastructure of its society. This book portrays the great diversity between rich and poor, victim and perpetrator. But most of all, it reveals an old country on the doorstep for rapid transformation. The unsentimental photographs made by Olof Jarlbro shows us a Kingdom on its last breath.

Photographs by Olof Jarlbro
Kant 2008, 89pp. Duetone 65 Black and White illustrations
21×23.5 Hard cover, Language English, Czech.