Artist Gallery

Born 1971 in Tampere, Finland, lives and works in Turku, Finland

I am society oriented photographer working mainly with themes concerning violence, understood both in concrete and philosophical way. I have a tendency to make critically oriented works. At the moment I am preparing an exhibition called Prison sheets. All the pictures are made in museum or otherhow empty prisons, that are for political prisoners and dissidents.

Although visiting prisons also in Albania during my NIFCA-recidency I am not making pictures especially to Prison sheets -series. I want to renew both my thinking and pictorial expression. Aerlier I have worked with colour, now I am working with B/W. In Albania I am doing joint work with local artistis with the theme concerning albanian identity. My view is of course visitors view, but when that is added to albanian artists views, we may end up with interesting dialogical manifestations.

education

1993 – University of Tampere, political sciences
2000 Photographer, Turku Polytechnik/Turku Arts Academy
2002 – University of Turku, media studies

memberships

PAND – Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament
Photography Center PERI
The Union of Artist Photographers Finland
The Union of Journalists in Finland

selected exhibitions

1993 Happy Freedom, Tampere, group exhibition
1998 dear men, gallery Just, Turku, solo exhibition
1999 Café Ananas, Manilla, Turku, group exhibition from the 3-year project in St. Petersburg
1996-1999
1999 Sun bathers of St. Petersburg, gallery Stabs, Korppoo, solo exhibition
1999 TECE exhibition, Rencontres Internationales de la Photo, France, group exhibition
2000 Badscapes, Photography Center PERI, Turku, solo exhibition, graduation
work from Turku Arts Academy
2001 On Violence, Northern Centre of Photography, Oulu and galleria Just, Turku, solo exhibition
2001 Virne, Humour in finnish photography, Mikkeli Photography Center, Mikkeli, group exhibition
2002 Boys, Photography Center PERI, Turku, group exhibition
2004 In blue light, Salo Art Museum, Salo, group exhibition
2004 Elämä, Victor Barsokevitsch Photographic Centre, Kuopio, group exhibition
2004 Prison sheets, Cultural Center Lindart, Tirana/Albania, solo exhibition

becoming exhibitions

2005 Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Studio, Turku, solo exhibition
2005 Rantagalleria, Oulu, solo exhibition

grants

1997 The Finnish Cultural Foundation
1997 Arts Council of Finland
1998 Finnfoto
2001 National Council of Photographic art
2000 Turku City
2003 National Council of Photographic art
2004 Patricia Seppälä Foundation

other activities

1997 – freelance-photographer, commercial work for several main newspapers and magazines in Finland
1999 Our Cultural Progenitors, EU-coordinated international project in Pylos, Greece
2000 – photography critic, Turun Sanomat (more than 100 articles since year 2000)
2001 – lecturer and teacher of photogarphy in Art School of Pori, Turku Arts Academy, University
of Tampere, University of Art and Design
2004 Concerning the Commonplace, Turku Art Museum, curator of a group exhibition
2004 Columnist in Turun Ylioppilaslehti
2004 NIFCA-recidency in Tirana, Albania

pictures in publications

- PYLOS – On the Tracks of Our Cultural Progenitors. Feldkirch: Brunner/Fritsch Pädagogische
Akademie (1999).
- Jaatinen, Olli (edit.). Virne – Humour in finnis photography. Helsinki: Musta Taide and Finnis
Museum of Photography (2002).

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