Title BREATHING THE SAME AIR
Artist Nelli Palomäki
Graphic designer Mikko Varakas
Writer Timothy Persons, Estelle af Malmborg & Peter Michael Hornung
Date of publication 2013
Dimensions 24,5 x 29 cm
Page count 136 pages
Edition size 2300
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Website nellipalomaki.com
Link to purchase book hatjecantz.de
About Finnish photographer Nelli Palomäki (*1981) searches for the lost magic that was once inherent in photography in the days when having your portrait taken was something special. Palomäki’s timeless black-andwhite portraits of children and young adults reveal the fragility of the moment shared with her subject. Her photographs deal with growing up, memory, and mortality. In the artist’s own words, “We fight against our mortality, denying it, yet photographs are there to prove our inescapable destiny. The idea of getting older is heartrending.”
Artist Nelli Palomäki
Graphic designer Mikko Varakas
Writer Timothy Persons, Estelle af Malmborg & Peter Michael Hornung
Date of publication 2013
Dimensions 24,5 x 29 cm
Page count 136 pages
Edition size 2300
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Website nellipalomaki.com
Link to purchase book hatjecantz.de
About Finnish photographer Nelli Palomäki (*1981) searches for the lost magic that was once inherent in photography in the days when having your portrait taken was something special. Palomäki’s timeless black-andwhite portraits of children and young adults reveal the fragility of the moment shared with her subject. Her photographs deal with growing up, memory, and mortality. In the artist’s own words, “We fight against our mortality, denying it, yet photographs are there to prove our inescapable destiny. The idea of getting older is heartrending.”