In 2025, aged 26 and in his prime, Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Alfie Whiteman retired from football. But back in 2021, he was still a professional athlete, slogging it out on loan at rural Swedish football team Degerfors IF. Stuck out in the Scandinavian countryside – isolated, alone and bored in a small town on the southern shore of Lake Möckeln – he started taking photographs.
The result is ‘A Loan’, a project which captures the tedium, frustration and humour of life in the middle of nowhere for an athlete who was just starting to question everything. This beautifully illustrated photobook is filled with surreal, funny, anxious images and diary entries from his time in Sweden.
It is published by OOF and Somesuch Editions to coincide with Whiteman's debut exhibition at OOF Gallery (1 May - 27 September 2026).
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RRP: UK: £20 | USA: $25.00 | EU: €23.00
ISBN: 978-1-0369-6006-3
96 pages | Dimensions: 300mm x 240mm
Printed by Zenith (UK)