Who am I ? I am photographing since early 90’s. I am photographer, who shoots landscapes, architecture, portraits and different perspective of common places. I had my experience in portraits, reporter photography shooting concerts, weddings, baptisms and product photography as well. In my photography projects I shoot what I find attractive to me. I just try to stop the place, the moment. There must be something about it.
By using the familiarity of the face as the template, my process involves hand painting the developer in the darkroom, intentionally revealing specific, desired aspects of the face in the negative. Doing so creates a stark negative space that gives the portrait a lucidity. Instead of creating a realistic, straight from film portrait, I am more interested in exploring how the original image can be brought to the surface in alternative ways. The portraits embody their own unique strangeness
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SANDRA KANTANEN
“I have been working with combining painting and photography for more than ten years. Im strongly influenced by Asian traditions of landscape painting.
In my early landscape works that I started in China, I developed a technique to print on painted metal plates. Now I use different mixed media for combining several layers of photographs digitally. All photographs are from different holy mountains in Asia, mainly China, Tibet and Japan. Through studying Chinese Landscape painting I got obsessed trying to understand this different culture of image making. By now I have climbed almost all Chinese holy mountains in search for this lost landscape. The “painting” in my images talks of a different presence on the surface of the image. Photography on the other hand is always trying to remind us of something real that actually existed. This controversy is what interests me.”
In my early landscape works that I started in China, I developed a technique to print on painted metal plates. Now I use different mixed media for combining several layers of photographs digitally. All photographs are from different holy mountains in Asia, mainly China, Tibet and Japan. Through studying Chinese Landscape painting I got obsessed trying to understand this different culture of image making. By now I have climbed almost all Chinese holy mountains in search for this lost landscape. The “painting” in my images talks of a different presence on the surface of the image. Photography on the other hand is always trying to remind us of something real that actually existed. This controversy is what interests me.”
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