For a long time I have wanted to share some moments of my past year — as it has been one incredible journey and I have enjoyed it so much. But I have not found the words to do so. Then one of my students from the spring semester posted this. Shot and edited by the super talented Ville Sakki from …
One aspect of being independent freelancer has always been a bit of a soft spot for me. It is working alone. Thus every opportunity to work together with a professional, solid team is a blessing which I enjoy very much. Some time ago, actually two years ago already, Petteri Saario – one of our most highly respected award winning nature documentarists – and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Sorry about the title. I really tried to come up with something more politically correct, but I just couldn’t. So ridiculous was the ruling of the Swedish highest court (Högsta Förvaltningsdomstolen) last Friday. If you speak the language, take a look, it is pretty short reading. And it is really, really scary. Basically it states that a drone (UAS) with a camera …