Welcome to the opening reception on Tuesday March 31st, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

My photography exhibition “From Vallila to Kauppatori” consists of black and white images, mostly street views of Helsinki, bordered, as the name suggests, by the areas between these city districts. The views captured in the images are a kind of Stilleben, whose atmosphere is colored by stagnation, absence without signs of life. Some of the images are enlivened by a person here and there.

Foggy weather, late night or an early morning are an irresistible combination to hang a camera around your neck and wander the city streets. To see and observe, to listen and to be quiet, to be carried away by the senses, to immortalize a moment that is etched deeply into consciousness.

                                                                                                                    Yön alku ja loppu

                                                                                                                                äänettömän äärellä

                                                                                                                                 toden rajamailla

                                                                                                                        autiot kadut

                                                                                                                                pinnalla helmiäistä

                                                                                                                      - vastaus kutsuun ei viivy

(The beginning and the end of the night

on the edge of soundlessness

borderlands of reality

empty streets

with pearly sheen

-the call will be answered)

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With my exhibition, I want to highlight the importance of classic, statement photography in the ever-expanding spectrum of photographic concepts. Even though the world around us changes, there is something that remains. It must be cherished so that it does not disappear.

I graduated as a visual artist from the Art School Maa in 1993. My main medium of expression is oil painting, but in recent years photography with a digital camera has taken up more and more space in my artistic work, the results of which are now on display.

Above Hillevi Mustaparta: Onkijoita Siltavuoren rannassa, 2024 (Fishermen by the Siltavuori shore)