Kenneth Bamberg

From the series Early mornings, Icy winds and other pests

Juha Arvid Helminen

From the series Invisible Empire

Anni Leppälä

Jorma Puranen

Susanna Majuri

"The water is the most remarkable. It carries bodies. Water is colour. The shimmer and the deep green.
My challenge is to see the reality in a non-traditional  light. When I am shooting pictures, I have a premonition that something strange is about to happen.

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The language is a map and draws around us, unknown and familiar.

I believe in a single image. It breaths strong."

 

Jorma Puranen

Ismo Hölttö

Ismo Hölttö (b.1940) is considered one of the greatest Finnish photographers of all time...

Anni Leppälä

“My interest towards photography is closely related to time in the past tense, to the possibility of being able to make a moment motionless, to make something stand still. That something has existed, and has now been set in static state. There is a certain aspect of lost moments and a feeling of letting go when looking at photographs. They exist at the intersection of the momentary and the constant, between the fleeting feeling of being alive and consciousness of the moments passing by.

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Symbolic meanings are essential in my works. I am interested in how the concrete surface of reality and photographs relate to metaphorical things that can be found underneath. I try to trace those kinds of occasions of seeing when words dissolve and scatter apart, objects and incidents intensify into symbolic language, silent information and intuitive interpretation. What fills the room behind the picture, allows one to step closer. Thoughts of incompleteness and insecurity are also important to my works.”

Ari Saarto

Sanna Kannisto