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This is my handwriting, also my handwriting are the images presented on these pages, for over 40 years, with Leicas, Hasselblads and various Nikon cameras.
What I try to do still as an "Oldie" is to get still the same feel, the same enthusiasm, what I had when I first picked up a camera and made my first exposures in a jazz concert of John Coltrane, back in 1961.. The same lousy technique and with B&W film, grainy like hell...
Yes I grew up in the period of movie "Blow UP", the actor mimicing there the Photographer David Bailey, a hippie driving a Rolls, Nikon F hanging from his shoulder and shooting " Social Documentary" in the back streets of London in his spare time, then going to his luxurous studio, shooting and shouting to the nice photo model girls. Oh those times...
Oh yes, I still like the sound of a shutter clicking and prserving what I see and feel in a slice of a 60`th of a second.
I have those slices, thousands of them, stored in my negatives. I feel truly rich, not by lookin at my bank account, but looking and remembering the images in my archives.
This website is about those images. I hope to share them with you, here and in my forthcoming retrospective:
" Lush Life- the images of my life"
...
My career as a photographer got a flying start ( and my career as a young Saxophone star eneded likewise) as I entered a photo made of this negative in our school`s culture competition. I won the visaual art price, entered the same print in "kameralehti" magazine`s amateur photo competition and won it, I was asked to enter the Nordic Youth`s art competition in Stockholm. I won it too, and my Jazz photo was full spread on Dagens Nyheter daily / First page with text: Young Finn wins the Youth Culture Price !! WoW, quite a start.. I thought: This photography is nice, you also meet nice young girls, that want to have nice shots made of them... Within a couple years I was doing major work for the leading finnish magazines and Fashion Houses, travelling all over Europe and of couse also married to one of those nice models...
I have divided this website to three major segments: EARLY YEARS: Work for fun, shooting jazzmen, girls, early fashion shots etc. Beginning of the 70`s I had a studio, started to do serious Advertising and Corporate work. Dull , but good money. These I pass quietly and concentrate on website to the more free work for artistis, musicans, fashion designers and new fantastic fashion model girls, that wanted to have a different look in their portofolio from what the other photographers were doing at that time. This segment is called "MEDIA YEARS"
The last segment is the photographs I started to do in order to keep my sanity, between the daily "Professional Studio Jobs" I started to do the " Grainy days" Portofolio, just shooting for kicks, in B&W and in bad weather. This I see now as a "KATHARSIS", cleaning my inside of all the agression and junk. I continued with leicas, in 35mm black & white. Street photography. Shooting everyday stuff, just for fun, honing my skills again as an observer, and having great time doing it
This I call the "FINALE YEARS" Hope there is still days to do it...
What I try to do still as an "Oldie" is to get still the same feel, the same enthusiasm, what I had when I first picked up a camera and made my first exposures in a jazz concert of John Coltrane, back in 1961.. The same lousy technique and with B&W film, grainy like hell...
Yes I grew up in the period of movie "Blow UP", the actor mimicing there the Photographer David Bailey, a hippie driving a Rolls, Nikon F hanging from his shoulder and shooting " Social Documentary" in the back streets of London in his spare time, then going to his luxurous studio, shooting and shouting to the nice photo model girls. Oh those times...
Oh yes, I still like the sound of a shutter clicking and prserving what I see and feel in a slice of a 60`th of a second.
I have those slices, thousands of them, stored in my negatives. I feel truly rich, not by lookin at my bank account, but looking and remembering the images in my archives.
This website is about those images. I hope to share them with you, here and in my forthcoming retrospective:
" Lush Life- the images of my life"
...
My career as a photographer got a flying start ( and my career as a young Saxophone star eneded likewise) as I entered a photo made of this negative in our school`s culture competition. I won the visaual art price, entered the same print in "kameralehti" magazine`s amateur photo competition and won it, I was asked to enter the Nordic Youth`s art competition in Stockholm. I won it too, and my Jazz photo was full spread on Dagens Nyheter daily / First page with text: Young Finn wins the Youth Culture Price !! WoW, quite a start.. I thought: This photography is nice, you also meet nice young girls, that want to have nice shots made of them... Within a couple years I was doing major work for the leading finnish magazines and Fashion Houses, travelling all over Europe and of couse also married to one of those nice models...
I have divided this website to three major segments: EARLY YEARS: Work for fun, shooting jazzmen, girls, early fashion shots etc. Beginning of the 70`s I had a studio, started to do serious Advertising and Corporate work. Dull , but good money. These I pass quietly and concentrate on website to the more free work for artistis, musicans, fashion designers and new fantastic fashion model girls, that wanted to have a different look in their portofolio from what the other photographers were doing at that time. This segment is called "MEDIA YEARS"
The last segment is the photographs I started to do in order to keep my sanity, between the daily "Professional Studio Jobs" I started to do the " Grainy days" Portofolio, just shooting for kicks, in B&W and in bad weather. This I see now as a "KATHARSIS", cleaning my inside of all the agression and junk. I continued with leicas, in 35mm black & white. Street photography. Shooting everyday stuff, just for fun, honing my skills again as an observer, and having great time doing it
This I call the "FINALE YEARS" Hope there is still days to do it...
