I stopped my own career as a sports photographer in Sotchi about five years ago… reasons being many, but the most important one probably that I saw the end of professional sports photography in the nearby horizon and I wanted to concentrate on the life and things coming after that. And it has been truly interesting a ride — more …
This is a project I have been working on for some time now. It is very personal and one of the most important – if not the most important piece of work I’ve ever done. I have enjoyed tremendously doing it and I am proud of the result, I think we did well. At the same time, happiness is not the feeling …
I have posted this image before, I just tumbled upon it by accident as a museum in Estonia was asking to use some of my images. One of my favourite images of all times, shot in Rock Summer 1988 in Tallinn, Estonia. Total rookie in serious photojournalism, but due to some strange coincidences I ended up there, amongst …
I was teaching the other day in Lahti (Video and Sound 101), looking for a good example for my students and I came to think of this. It is a small, simple homework I assigned in Aalto University last year, where I asked the students to come up with a thematically coherent story of some kind, maybe tell something about themselves so …
The past couple of weeks I have had the pleasure of teaching in the Aalto University a course titled Multimedia Storytelling. I think it is the fifth or so time I do it and everytime it has been different. This time it was spread over several weeks whereas last time it was a one week intensive. This time I gave quite …
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 …
We are doing an interesting project in Lahti (LAMK a.k.a Lahti University of Applied Sciences), where we were assigned to shoot some video footage and stills images on our local outdoor possibilities. The client did not ask for it, but I volunteered to shoot some 360° stills as well — I figured that since we already were on …
Olen kirjoittanut Journalistiin vakituisesti neljä vuotta. Alunperin pesti oli tarkoitettu vuoden mittaiseksi, mutta jostain syystä päätoimittaja ei ole puhaltanut pilliin ja peliä poikki. Saa nähdä kauanko jatkuu vielä… Pohdin ‑jälleen kerran — mitä kirjoittaa seuraavassa kolumnissani ja taas tuli mieleen, että olenkohan tuosta tai tuosta aiheesta puhunut jo riittämiin. Joten päätin kerätä yhteen kaikki tähän mennessä kirjoittamani. Jotta …
Sometimes images just haunt you. Words likewise. This morning I am hauted by both of them. I can’t touch you, but your words touch me like petals from abandoned flowers blown forgotten to the wind, a laugh lived but once, given life and gentle death, gone, but held forever, as the leaves turn gold falling, like we always fall. (The brilliant image is …