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The Swedish government decided to ban the EPA’s on the 31st of march 1975, but after a strong reaction from the public, they backed.

From 1952 all EPA Tractors had to wear a licence plate. 5M 150/300/600LEDs Waterproof RGB LED Strip 5050 DC12V Flexible Led Ribbon Tape Home Decoration RGB RGBW RGBCCT Lamp Strips. When he was 9 years old he moved to Denmark, where he graduated with a BA in photojournalism from the Danish School of Media and Journalism. The farmers swapped their EPAs with purpose built machines, and the youth started a subculture much like the American Hot Rods, with converting old cars. The documentation works both as a way of portraying the emotions of the teenagers, and the physical manifestation of the EPA life as it looks like today, but it is also a way of preserving this unique part of Swedish culture for future generations to come.īenjamin Nørskov was born 1992 in Småland. The cars reflect the personality and interests of the owner - changing colors, scent, and sound as the teenage years pass. In many ways, the EPA tractor itself becomes a window into a unique kind of teenage life, that has never been documented as extensively as in this project. The cars themselves can symbolize the stage between childhood and adulthood where you try everything for the first time – they are a way of experimenting with what adulthood feels like, without quite being there yet. The EPA tractors create a special kind of freedom for the young boys and girls, that suddenly find themselves able to live a more parent-independent life. The law makes it possible to drive a car if you modify it to register as a tractor. In the rural areas of Sweden, teenage boys and girls aged 15, 16, and 17 take advantage of a law that wasn't initially intended for them.