A friend and colleague of mine Tea Karvinen, contacted me about a year ago and said she needed a bit of help with turning her images into a multimedia presentation of some kind. We go back a long way, we both used to work for Ilta-Sanomat and did e.g. Salt Lake City Olympics together 2002. She had spent six years …
The photographer I have always looked up to immensely is Hannes Heikura. For various reasons, but I will not get into them here. Unfortunately he is no longer with us — he died last spring, but his work lives on. The last chapter of his Helsinki trilogy “The End of the Road” is at display in the Virka Gallery in Helsinki …
Sometimes it’s great fun to do some totally different. The culture office of Porvoo asked me, if I could come up with anything to their summer #URBCULT ‑project. They basically gave me a one square-meter “outdoor toilet” (in Finnish “huussi” or “hyyssikkä”) — and free hands to do “art”. And yes: without the actual seat-and-the-bucket . It just …