närvarande läsnä (present)

so here it is, the poster for the exhibition. i'm very pleased, it's a lot better than the last poster i made two years ago (remember?).
 

i'm off to sweden on friday morning. we're about to meet up with my love's mom, go climbing, see the henri-cartier bresson's, the grand master of snapshot photography, exhibition at fotografiska and much more and when we get back there'll be heaps of stuff to do before my own exhibition starts. and as if there weren't enough stuff in the air, i got a freelance gig three weekends from now and an interview for a school that i applyed for.


i'll have to keep this blog silent again for a while, take care!

click here to get to the facebook page of the event!

 

spring photographs and a diy negative scanner

 

i always scan my negatives when i visit helsinki. since my old teacher and i are such good buddies nowadays he lets me lend the scanner every now and then. 

last time i visited helsinki (read more) i didn't have any time to scan my latest film roll. i did manage to make two photographs in the darkroom but i still had three more photos left and i didn't have enough time to enlarge all of them, what a pity i said to myself.

so what i did two days ago is that i made a temporary negative scanner and "scanned" these three photographs with it. how it works? you simply use a tube of somekind, put the negative between two frames (who fits the negative, in my case 6x7cm), place the frame onto the tube and photograph though it from the opposite side of the negatives. point the tube against something really light, like the sun, and shoot. all you have to do afterwards is to convert the photographs from negative to positive in photoshop or any other programme who manage to do it.

simple huh? you can get really exciting effects in this scanning process. for example, the black spot in the middle of the second photograph above is the almighty sun itself. it also shows on the first picture on the upper edge, not as much as on the second one but a tiny bit.

this is a really  interesting way to scan negatives on but i think that i might have to invest in a real scanner sometimes soon.

summer colors

 

a bunch of photographs from two summers ago. i'm so much looking forward to put my naked feet on the ground and let the tiny stones and grass caress them, long evenings and early nights with lots of skateboarding, eating breakfast outside, swimming in the ocean. 

i found a new camera who'll hopefully will lay in my hands in the end of this week or during the next one. it's been such a long time since i've photographed with 35mm film, i'm so eager my stomach is jumping up and down.

oh and by the way for those who might be interested, you can find me on instagram nowadays. i don't even own a smartphone.

april selfie.

what a crazy week it has been. lots of last minute photographing, developing, celebrating my beloved lil' brothers 11th birthday, traintrip to helsinki, all in all 16 hours in the darkroom on only two days (yep my head was a bit fuzzy after all that chemical exposure), new kind of photographic papers (the result is A M A Z I N G!), punk and grindcore gig and last but not least evening ride back home. my arms are sore after all the enlarging procedures, everytime i strain the lower parts of my arms they hurt and does not feel like they were mine at all.

but it was all worth it. all the photographs for the exhibition are ready and i'm so relieved. feels like the only the easy parts are left. 

the photograph above is a selfie from last monday, april 22nd, and is a scanned version of the enlarged photograph. that's why it might look a bit wierd, but it'll have to do for now.

last week i tried out time lapse photography on my digital camera. i photographed a growing bean for four days and if you're interested in the result you can watch it here!

my beautiful grandma and a long dead relative in the background

lot's of stuff going on nowadays. i've been doing lots of skateboarding, developing filmrolls, purchasing a birthday gift for my little brother, scanning negatives, fetching photographic papers from a tiny store on a very old street in helsinki, making invitations for the grand opening of my exhibition, posters for the exhibition and so on. got a new dress from my dear mother as a birthday gift, it's beautiful. 

i'd really like that all the snow on the ground would vanish. our kitchen is full of artichokes, tomatoes, squash, beans and corn who would like to get outside. they'll have to wait for one more month though. 

i'm thinking about having a blog-break. i'm not too inspired to keep this blog floating at the moment. i never thought i would say this, but it would be nice to hear you guys speak up a little more often. i have loads of stuff i need to do and i feel that perhaps i should keep my computer closed for a few days or weeks. i'm also still looking for a kinoformat camera to purchase, it would be so nice to also have a camera with smaller format than middleformat, then i could photograph more daily happenings. i adore my big mamiya, but it's a bit heavy and big to carry around with you. 

take care peeps.