https://photobooksfromfinland.fi pbff Sun, 08 Nov 2020 06:57:08 +0000 https://photobooksfromfinland.fi en https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Slideshow Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:45:03 +0000 pbff https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Slideshow https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Works-1 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:54:29 +0000 pbff https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Works-1 <img width="1536" height="1024" width_o="1536" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ddc74c1790f2affdb503f2a0d60e5e8b7eb06c7845d841f0760dadbdfb9fea0/URBxPBFF.jpg" data-mid="150989572" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ddc74c1790f2affdb503f2a0d60e5e8b7eb06c7845d841f0760dadbdfb9fea0/URBxPBFF.jpg" />Newspaper Vending Machine Multiple newspaper platform2022 <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43f9cb21e7f9cb730989a7d7ce57dbbbfaac43caa36803fc74cc8e85116a0804/3newsp-1.jpg" data-mid="144031610" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43f9cb21e7f9cb730989a7d7ce57dbbbfaac43caa36803fc74cc8e85116a0804/3newsp-1.jpg" />Newspaper Vending Machine Multiple newspaper platform2020 <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4fa8d82e8924fd495f79e2768d7c8cda525f2af9ecd52da21c3db14103b29c5/photobooks_thumb.jpg" data-mid="66162377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4fa8d82e8924fd495f79e2768d7c8cda525f2af9ecd52da21c3db14103b29c5/photobooks_thumb.jpg" />fin.land.Publication2018 <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94f48023cbaf9b0da2bf50d64991e36bc90917d4116a0d606caf9a82d3fc6596/2018-fin.land.-Suomen-valokuvataiteen-museo-Helsinki-008.jpg" data-mid="57821695" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94f48023cbaf9b0da2bf50d64991e36bc90917d4116a0d606caf9a82d3fc6596/2018-fin.land.-Suomen-valokuvataiteen-museo-Helsinki-008.jpg" />fin.land. Exhibition2018 <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64910119d7c057da4f69488b193796225bd6d2503252a1f4af51064697cbc277/Bring-your-own-dummy-02.jpg" data-mid="57821691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64910119d7c057da4f69488b193796225bd6d2503252a1f4af51064697cbc277/Bring-your-own-dummy-02.jpg" />Bring Your Own Dummy!Pop-up event2018 <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd66c0259f761da75f714f9c31a4ec008101f788cb07f7e37ea6c9e8206b1526/Nordic-Dummy-Award-001.jpg" data-mid="57821694" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd66c0259f761da75f714f9c31a4ec008101f788cb07f7e37ea6c9e8206b1526/Nordic-Dummy-Award-001.jpg" />Nordic Dummy AwardWork2017 <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b1acd916cecd2e1c62e1544f8549837cfc09370b117b60daac24339a2adc776/Fotobokfestival-001.jpg" data-mid="57821692" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b1acd916cecd2e1c62e1544f8549837cfc09370b117b60daac24339a2adc776/Fotobokfestival-001.jpg" /> Fotobok Festival OsloExhibition2016 <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed0a02032975c1cdbf39cb68e4c3fa5b09c35260f607172ee50dbd1bc301ab0c/2015-Look-what-I-Found-at-Unseen-002.jpg" data-mid="57821689" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed0a02032975c1cdbf39cb68e4c3fa5b09c35260f607172ee50dbd1bc301ab0c/2015-Look-what-I-Found-at-Unseen-002.jpg" />Look What I Found At UnseenPop-up event &amp; reading room2015 <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a2254dbb3adeaa54d4dc0324ef696ba123eb201f5b5ca6d829d353b0f461540/Unseen-002.jpg" data-mid="57821690" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a2254dbb3adeaa54d4dc0324ef696ba123eb201f5b5ca6d829d353b0f461540/Unseen-002.jpg" />UnseenBook market2015 <img width="1872" height="1247" width_o="1872" height_o="1247" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8833f0cc2ffc2112124b890c563e87806deeed0e38273c055c697a5c8cafe5d9/pbff.jpg" data-mid="144030967" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8833f0cc2ffc2112124b890c563e87806deeed0e38273c055c697a5c8cafe5d9/pbff.jpg" />Photobooks from FinlandArchive2014 https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Info Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:33:23 +0000 pbff https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Info <img width="1188" height="792" width_o="1188" height_o="792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e30fcd8561574d964f38f52c7d9db382d7b10b546800d069755215d13213544/pbff.jpg" data-mid="57935795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e30fcd8561574d964f38f52c7d9db382d7b10b546800d069755215d13213544/pbff.jpg" /> pbff (Photobooks from Finland) aims to enhance Finnish photo books and publications by archiving and creating participatory platforms.&nbsp; Artists based project was founded in 2014 and is currently coordinated by Karoliina Paatos and Johannes Romppanen. https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Tekla-Inari Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:24:08 +0000 pbff https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Tekla-Inari <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb02c23b091a559f202cdeee6589fb22791b253492cad62b94585ef6ee561e6f/3newsp.jpg" data-mid="80379515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb02c23b091a559f202cdeee6589fb22791b253492cad62b94585ef6ee561e6f/3newsp.jpg" /><img width="3731" height="2798" width_o="3731" height_o="2798" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5f4fbd4af2faf08939289297f16844878d90575e1297155a4ed15d02bfc9de6/2newsp.jpg" data-mid="80378776" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5f4fbd4af2faf08939289297f16844878d90575e1297155a4ed15d02bfc9de6/2newsp.jpg" /> The Newspaper Vending Machine: Tekla Inari by Rooftop Press The end of the world is easier to imagine (Questions for 2020) 20.8.–2.9.2020 PBFF (Photobooks from Finland) has invited nine artists and/or artists’ collectives to create publications using the newspaper format. The artists and artists’ collectives work in Finland, in various fields of visual art. The first publication is The end of the world is easier to imagine (Questions for 2020) by Tekla Inari by Rooftop Press. A poetical reflection on the complex relationships between people and things, events and places in a neoliberal society of the neverending tiny spectacle. In her timely belles-lettres the artist participates in ongoing conversations around a variety of issues such as alienation, love, body politics, urban planning, structural oppression hiding in plain sight and the painful limitations of human communication. The discursive, meditative investigation is conducted with warmth and an open hearted empathy towards narrator’s fellow entities. Rooftop Press is a Helsinki based nonprofit publishing initiative exploring publishing as artistic practice and publications as space for contemporary art. By working collaboratively and in close dialogue with other artists, the publishers aim at expanding the potential and deepening the undesrtanding of what it means to publish within an artistic context. Rooftop Press maintains a micro press Vallilan risopaja and organises an occasional artist’s publishing event Bookies.The Newspaper Vending Machine is supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland. It is realised in cooperation with the Association of Photographic Artists and Korjaamo Culture Factory. Tekla Inari by Rooftop Press Design: Tekla Inari &amp; Jaakko Suomalainen Language: English &amp; Finnish English translation: Kasper SalonenPrinting: PrintallPublished by Rooftop Press and PBFFsingle sheet folded in eight220 x 315 mm / 630 x 880 mmrotary colour offset on Exo H 76 PEFC 52g newsprint Edition of 500ISBN 978-952-7258-14-9 https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Hilla-Kurki Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:45:53 +0000 pbff https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Hilla-Kurki <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/865a76a4559d335964bb3fd1d3e90f743f693740be2dbc0c9290ca2610454b31/nita-hilla1.jpg" data-mid="81668815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/865a76a4559d335964bb3fd1d3e90f743f693740be2dbc0c9290ca2610454b31/nita-hilla1.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/755a0885bd0016bbf6700b4a1c3999280051605cd10d180052b32bc6a0141bf0/nita-hilla5.jpg" data-mid="81668990" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/755a0885bd0016bbf6700b4a1c3999280051605cd10d180052b32bc6a0141bf0/nita-hilla5.jpg" /> Hilla Kurki and Nita Vera Playbook for Friendship3.9.–16.9.2020 Playbook for Friendship is the outcome of an art experimentation Hilla Kurki and Nita Vera made by exchanging lives for one day. By following the daily routines of the other and changing clothes, phones, eating habits and even thoughts Hilla and Nita stepped into the other’s intimacy and documented the experience of being the other one. Hilla Kurki (b.1985) describes her artistic practice as pragmatic exorcism. In her works Kurki studies themes such as grief, motherhood, voluntary childlessness, and the end of the world. Her practise follows a long history of female artists who renegotiate the past through self-reflection and re-evaluation of their own families’ relationships. Nita Vera (b.1986) explores love and its many forms – sexual love, contemporary liquid love, abusive love and family love – all in which relationships, emotions and the personal become important subjects. She tries to map a rainbow of internal landscapes where love merges with loneliness, mental collapse and violation. https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Peetu-Liesinen Sun, 13 Sep 2020 13:50:43 +0000 pbff https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Peetu-Liesinen <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/734fdc70b34ec9407309f49899074eac8095aafba4673b569be774f831836164/liesinen2.jpg" data-mid="82949063" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/734fdc70b34ec9407309f49899074eac8095aafba4673b569be774f831836164/liesinen2.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a94e3a67b924459ba917e442add565187e0c946fab752bec33fbfc0cab041cd/liesinen1.jpg" data-mid="82949062" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a94e3a67b924459ba917e442add565187e0c946fab752bec33fbfc0cab041cd/liesinen1.jpg" /> Peetu Liesinen OFFSHOOT17.–30.9.2020 OFFSHOOT Magazine shows collection of Liesinen´s filmphotographs and ink works on paper.Photographs shows how and what Liesinen sees. What caught the artists eye. In the magazine photographs and drawings communicate with each other and make a connection between the drawings and photographs. Peetu Liesinen is a master of arts from Helsinki University of fine arts. He is a painter who draws, photographs and uses collage in his works. Often in his paintings, film photos and drawings combine together making a connection between these two worlds. At the moment Liesinen´s works are on display in Kiasma Seppo Fränti´s Mad Love -collection exhibition. https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Milja-Havas Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:21:23 +0000 pbff https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Milja-Havas <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b05a7ceb9b11b8e69eb61ba51c08c7e459cc6690c79adec960a6fecd260d67dc/PBFF-2020-HAVAS-004.jpg" data-mid="84265709" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b05a7ceb9b11b8e69eb61ba51c08c7e459cc6690c79adec960a6fecd260d67dc/PBFF-2020-HAVAS-004.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4037ca1110d36f63100b11e2ca9e2dffda7cd955678e0d3cd2fbafb7ddb2ec5/PBFF-2020-HAVAS-005.jpg" data-mid="84265706" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4037ca1110d36f63100b11e2ca9e2dffda7cd955678e0d3cd2fbafb7ddb2ec5/PBFF-2020-HAVAS-005.jpg" /> Milja Havas Community of Useless Tools1.10.–14.10.2020 Community of Useless Tools is a collection of perplexing and impractical tools that Havas has worked on from 2016 to 2020. The tools crafted by Havas can be called incomplete, inadequate, flawed, imperfect, dissatisfactory or so on, but together they form a community that introduces themes of human memory, the object-oriented nature of reality and the relationship between nature and culture. Havas’ artistic work also raises questions of the connections between artisanship and the manufacturing of art objects. This publication consists of photographs representing Havas’ works and a text compiled by Joonas Pulkkinen which combines essay writing with an interview of the artist. In the text, Havas’ personal artistic voice and self-reflection of her work are placed in dialogue with Pulkkinen’s contemplations creating various perspectives from which to appreciate Havas’ community of tools. Based in Helsinki, Milja Havas is an artist studying in Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts. Havas is a wood carpenter by prior education, inspiring the choice of wood as the primary material of her work in recent years further leading to the deepening of her artistic thinking. Although Havas bases her work on the materials, she also brings together different techniques in a playful way that can tilt our established perceptions of reality. https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Sergei-Pavlov Sun, 11 Oct 2020 18:56:14 +0000 pbff https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Sergei-Pavlov <img width="2550" height="1913" width_o="2550" height_o="1913" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0eb9e0d105560d713aec1bf810254196724b47730a327c38b65235afd867dd07/PBFF-2020-PAVLOV.jpg" data-mid="85641957" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0eb9e0d105560d713aec1bf810254196724b47730a327c38b65235afd867dd07/PBFF-2020-PAVLOV.jpg" /> Sergei Pavlov 20-2515.10.–28.10.2020 Johannes Romppanen invited me to this project. I sent over 1000 images to him from which he chose small edit and made an proposing layout. We had discussions about the images and about the selection. The images we’re consisted mostly documentary portraits of my family, friends and an lover. Photos remind me of many countries, few years and million memories. It felt so free to let go of the role of choosing the images and trying to create the story. Of course, I see the stories behind the images but Johannes didn’t. I felt it’s more interesting to combine this kind of way of working. Very personal work edited mostly by person who doesn’t know too much behind the images. The name to the publication came from my age. Images were done when I was 20 - 25 years old. I had certain style of working which has changed vey much now. In a way this reminds me of the craving for freedom and hunger for adventure. Yet, reminds me that the only way to grow is some how to let go. Sergei Pavlov (b.1994) is Russian-Finnish photographer. His photographic works consist mostly of series made of documentary black and white portraits. Either project-based working or more auto-fictive storytelling, the main theme in his work is to study, define and questions the human condition with an emotional perspective. https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Annaliisa-Krage Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:26:02 +0000 pbff https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Annaliisa-Krage <img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7b013269d443e26a1839ededf8d824a0a7f6e3b675604e34f5d8e492b2147f8/PBFF-2020-KRAGE-004.jpg" data-mid="87033800" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7b013269d443e26a1839ededf8d824a0a7f6e3b675604e34f5d8e492b2147f8/PBFF-2020-KRAGE-004.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7343ad73d40bcc8e7b5e8487ad15ef8ba42dabb379820fadf080b30a655fa636/PBFF-2020-KRAGE-005.jpg" data-mid="87033801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7343ad73d40bcc8e7b5e8487ad15ef8ba42dabb379820fadf080b30a655fa636/PBFF-2020-KRAGE-005.jpg" /> Annaliisa Krage Washes, whispers 29.10.–11.11.2020 While painting I was thinking of automatic painting and drawing - the notion that something exterior to the artist tells her what to paint. Does this something also tell her how to execute the painting or drawing? Once again I found myself facing those two difficult questions: what to paint and how to paint. Being overwhelmed, trying to find the answer to both, I settled for one. H o w do I want to paint? Washes, whispers by Annaliisa Krage consists of a series of watercolour paintings that were made specifically for their reproduction in print. By being composed only of the basic printing colours, cyan, magenta and yellow, the paintings flirt with their means of reproduction. At an ideal level, the printer reenacts the process of painting by gradually mixing the hues and reproducing the slight variations in tone and intensity present throughout the painting. Annaliisa Krage is a visual artist who lives and works in Espoo. Washes, whispers is her second artist book, following finestra aperta (2019). finestra aperta consists of monochrome watercolour paintings printed on separate cards. The flat paintings show windows taken from Early Renaissance frescoes that Krage traced from catalogues and photographs. The cards were printed in a single colour each, mimicking the way in which they were painted. As with finestra aperta, Washes, whispers was designed by Paula Timm, a graphic designer who lives and works in Kiel, Germany. https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Kosminen-collective Sun, 08 Nov 2020 06:57:08 +0000 pbff https://photobooksfromfinland.fi/Kosminen-collective <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53d69967248fa9dba67d709d22e92049220ed5c50fdf59048fb5e9cae0f59fd2/IMG_20201112_095646__01.jpg" data-mid="88553690" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53d69967248fa9dba67d709d22e92049220ed5c50fdf59048fb5e9cae0f59fd2/IMG_20201112_095646__01.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9dde25d39fa3ae94991ec84e943fccca809174cd1b2733fbfe5ac9630e12353/IMG_20201112_095521__01.jpg" data-mid="88553689" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9dde25d39fa3ae94991ec84e943fccca809174cd1b2733fbfe5ac9630e12353/IMG_20201112_095521__01.jpg" /> Kosminen Collective BRIGHTNESS12.11.–25.11.2020 BRIGHTNESS is a science fiction zine that includes text and photographs by members of Kosminen Collective. It depicts the protagonist waking up and traveling in a strange world that resembles a partly familiar reality. Notes on observations are like a shattered dream, where inner and outer existence blend together. Kosminen Collective is formed by Liina Aalto-Setälä, Lotta Blomberg, Helen Korpak and Anna Niskanen. The collective started from a peer review meeting group, and now runs a non-profit art space Kosminen in downtown Helsinki. BRIGHTNESS is the collective’s fourth publication.