Published in 1998 by Helsingfors, Metropol is a photographic work by Kristoffer Albrecht, with Kjell Westö also credited in the Google Books record. Its title points toward the city as both subject and structure, while the catalogued subtitle identifies nine locations: Montréal, Istanbul, Madrid, Riga, Beijing, Roma, Bhaktapur, Paris, and Marrakech. Taken together, these places establish a broad geographic field without reducing the book to a simple inventory of destinations.

The significance of Metropol lies in this deliberately comparative premise. The selected cities span different historical, cultural, and urban conditions, inviting attention to the ways metropolitan life is encountered through streets, buildings, movement, and public space. Rather than presenting a single city as the universal model, the book’s scope places distinct urban environments in relation to one another. Its photographic approach can therefore be understood as an inquiry into the varied forms a city assumes—and into the visual correspondences that may emerge across distance.

For collectors, the book deserves notice as a 1990s photobook organized around an unusually expansive urban geography. The named sequence—from Montréal to Bhaktapur and from Beijing to Paris—gives the volume a clear conceptual identity, while the credited collaboration with Westö marks it as more than an anonymously catalogued image collection. With its English-language record, 1998 publication date, and ISBN 9789519804019, Metropol is a focused document of a period when photographic books could frame the modern city through international comparison rather than a single local portrait.