║ Wilma Hurskainen ║

© Wilma Hurskainen, Untitled, from the series No Name, 2007 -

© Wilma Hurskainen, Untitled, from the series No Name, 2007 -

© Wilma Hurskainen, Untitled, from the series No Name, 2007 -

“In my new series No Name I go further with the themes of childhood and memory. This time childhood and adulthood, like layers, are present in the same photograph. I re-create my memories, some of which are false or invented, and continue the visual representation of these memories by loosely attaching texts to the pictures. By doing this I try to find out and question the means a text and a photograph use to mediate a story(memory. A text seems a lot more straightforward in its narration; and yet it is the photograph that has an indexical relation to the past. The reader/spectator takes a different position towards the text than the photograph. I hope that looking at the series could resemble the actual, complex process of remembering and the constant re-writing of a memoru. At the same time, the texts comment on the photographic representations and the posssibilities of posing for a photograph.”

Wilma Hurskainen

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║ Eva Persson ║

© Eva Persson, Untitled, from the series Jokela, 2007

© Eva Persson, Untitled, from the series Jokela, 2007

“On November 7, 2007 occured what has come to be called the Jokela School shooting. At lunch time Pekka-Eric Auvinen had went to the school in Jokela and shot eight people and then himself.I was watching the news on tv in the early evening when I got a call from an agency. They wanted me to do a personal series on the tradgedy during the next couple of days. I drove to Jokela and started to photograph. The next day I went back and then again a few days later.”

Eva Personn

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║ Deirdre Donoghue ║

© Deirdre Donoghue, Untitled #2, from the series Infantocracy, 2003

© Deirdre Donoghue, Untitled #3, from the series Infantocracy, 2003

“Infantocracy is a series of large photographic prints addressing ideas on childhood and power through the investigation of space and displacement. The series focuses on spatial relationships between the surrounding social environment, its cultural landscapes and the ‘child’, who like an explorer is in the process of learning how to negotiate and occupy the given space/s.”
Deirdre Donoghue

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║ Sanna Kannisto ║

© Sanna Kannisto, 2006

© Sanna Kannisto, 2001

© Sanna Kannisto, 1998

“My work explores the relationship between nature and culture. In my artistic work I aim to study the methods, theories and concepts through which we approach nature in art and in science. As an artist I am attracted by the idea that when I am working in a rain forest I am a ‘visual researcher’. In my series Private Collection and Field Studies I was interested in borrowing methods of representation, as well as working methods, from the natural sciences, from anthropological and archaeological practices and from still-life painting tradition to use in my photographic work.”
Sanna Kannisto

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║ Elina Brotherus ║

© Elina Brotherus, Le Printemps, from the series The New Painting, 2001

© Elina Brotherus, Scène Domestique, from the series The New Painting, 2001

“Elina Brotherus begins from her own experience: herself, those close to her, and the landscapes she knows. For her, photography’s ‘decisive moment’ is not a split second alignment of people and light, but a passage of time lasting anything from a few minutes to a few weeks. Her self-portraits tend to be made in moments of vulnerability, such as in the aftermath or low-ebb of a love affair. Although carefully staged in domestic settings flooded with cool white light, they remain intensely personal, the artist sometimes appearing naked or in tears. [...]

Brotherus describes the relationship between her portraits and landscapes as follows: “I want to provide a perspective on the human being’s emotional landscape, to explore the relationship of an individual to space as well as to other people. The wide open space also functions as a resting place for the viewer, providing room for thought”.”

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║ Esko Manniko ║

© Esko Mannikko, Kuivaniemi, 1993

© Esko Mannikko, Aldo, Batesville, 1997

Himself a 36-year-old northern Finn who lives in Oulu, Mannikko knows his people. He visits and often stays with them for a day or two to achieve the images that say what can be said about them. His portraits are overwhelmingly fact-filled and naked, delivering more truth more suddenly than can be absorbed, no matter how long you look at them. With allowance for the greater formality of his photographs, he reminds me of Nan Goldin, who similarly causes pictures to happen like congested freeze-frames within achingly intimate, dark flows of life.
Also like Goldin, Mannikko knows how kicked-up color can function analytically, drawing almost tactile attention to the quiddities of things.
Peter Schjedahl