Born in Helsinki, Finland in 1961
Lives in Ingå, Finland
2001, Doctor of Arts, University of Art and Design Helsinki
(Thesis: Creative Reproduction. A Practical Study on Ink-printed Photographs, Their History of Production and Aesthetic Identity)
1987, Master of Arts, University of Art and Design Helsinki
Has been teaching photography since 1986.
Selected publications:
Epitaph, 2021
Who put me here?, 2021
Umbra, 2021
Vak upp, Goya! · Wake up, Goya!, Inkoo, 2018
Tysta marker · Quiet grounds, Ingå: Opus, 2018
Domestica, Ingå: Opus, 2018
Pastoral, Ingå: Opus, 2017
Intermezzo, Ingå: Opus, 2016
Variations, Ingå: Opus, 2015
Memento, Ingå: Opus, 2015
Yeats’s Prayer. Ingå: Opus 2014
Higashi. Ingå: Opus 2014
Oktober. Ingå: Opus 2013
Trees are Poems. (with Eskola, Kovalainen, Sammallahti) Helsinki: Opus 2013
Nya Skäriboken. (with Stefan Lundberg) Helsingfors, 2011
Silmin kosketeltavaa. (with Taneli Eskola) Helsinki: Aalto-yliopisto, 2011
Beijing. Ingå: Opus, 2010
Labor. Ingå: Opus, 2009
ZigZag. Helsinki: Musta Taide & Opus 2009
Uppehåll · Pysähdyksiä. Ingå: Opus, 2008
Corso. Helsinki: Opus, 2006
Palasia, Bitar, Pieces. Helsinki, 2005
Memorabilia. Helsinki: Musta Taide & Opus, 2004
Al-Madina. (with P.Sammallahti & J. Eskildsen) Helsinki: Opus, 2002
Creative Reproduction · A Practical Study on Ink-printed Photographs, their History of Production and Aesthetic Identity (doctoral thesis).
Helsinki: University of Art and Design, 2001
Metropol (productional part of doctoral thesis). Helsinki: Musta Taide & Opus, 1998
1998 Paris (with P. Sammallahti). Helsinki: Opus, 1997
Fünfundneunzig (group). Thomasburg, 1994
Armor. Nykarleby: Opus, 1992
En Avril. Montréal, Helsinki: Opus, 1990
Kväll. Pernå: Opus.1990
The Japanese Portfolio (with P. Sammallahti). Helsinki: Opus, 1990
Vis - à - vis. Pernå: Opus 1989
The Pernå Church (with A. Utterström). Pernå,1989
Quelle. Helsinki: Opus, 1987
Etude. Helsinki, 1985
Stilleben. Helsinki, 1984
Selected solo exhibitions:
2021
Galleri Gamla Kaplansgården, Porvoo, Finland
Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti, Finland
Norpas-festival, books, Dalsbruk, Finland
2019
Galleria Saskia, Tampere, Finland (with Maija Albrecht)
Domestica, Laterna Magica, Helsinki, Finland
2018
Domestica, Galleri Ibis, Vaasa, Finland
2017
Near the Wind, The Photographers' Gallery, London, England (solo exhibition with Pentti Sammallahti)
Settings, Foto Art Festival, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
2016
Ailleurs, Jardin Raymond VI, Toulouse, France (with Marc Riboud, Pentti Sammallahti, Anita Andrzejewska)
Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba (with Timo Kelaranta)
2015
Galleri Norden ljus, Stockholm, Sweden
Kangasala-talo, Kangasala, Finland
2014
Mikkeli Centre of Photography, Mikkeli, Finland
2013
Galerie BU, Galerie BU, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France
Centro iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid, Spain (with Maija Albrecht)
Söderlångvik, Kemiö, Finland
2012
Norpas Festival, Taalintehdas, Finland (with Maija Albrecht)
2011
Galleri G, Helsinki, Finland
2010
Galleria Harmonia, Jyväskylä, Finland (with Maija Albrecht)
Galleria Ibis, Vaasa, Finland
2009
Valokuvakeskus Peri, Turku, Finland
Galleri Zebra, Karjaa, Finland
2008
Galleri Kronan, Norrköping, Sweden
2007
Galleri Soboleff, Tammisaari, Finland
Candace Dwan Gallery, Katonah, New York, USA
2006
4+, Luxembourg and Bryssel, Belgium, (with Tero Laaksonen, Kuutti Lavonen and Kristina Riska)
2004
Häme Galleria, Lahti, Finland
2002
Galerie Albrecht, München, Germany (with P. Sammallahti & J. Eskildsen)
Galleria Pictor, Nummela, Finland
St Martin-Vésubie, France (with P. Sammallahti)
Galleri Mazarin, Söderhamn, Sweden
Vanha Kappalaisentalo, Porvoo, Finland
Institut Finlandais, Paris, France
Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001
Galleria AMA, Turku, Finland
The Gallén-Kallela Museum, Espoo, Finland
2000
Galleri Mazarin, Söderhamn, Sweden
1998
Fotogalleriet, Lund, Sweden
1997
Galleri Zebra, Karjaa
1996
Galerie Web-bar, Paris, France (with J. Puranen and P. Sammallahti)
1994
Laterna Magica, Helsinki, Finland
After Eight, Pietarsaari, Finland
1992
Laterna Magica, Helsinki, Finland
Galleri Viktor, Nykarleby, Finland
1990
Laterna Magica, Helsinki, Finland (with P. Sammallahti)
WB-centrum, Kuopio, Finland
1988
The Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
1987
Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
1984
Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
Selected group exhibitions:
2022
Nuages, Galerie Camera obscura, Paris, France
2021
The Book Fair at CHART Art Fair, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
National and University Library of Island, Reykjavik, Iceland
Rom for bøker, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand, Norway
2020
Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand, Norway
Inanimate Life and Dead Nature, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Konstepidemia, Gothenburg, Sweden
Wiurila Summer, Wiurilan manor, Salo, Finland
Fragments d’un Paradis, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
Winter Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
2019
Bristol Artist Book Event, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, Great Britain
Frankfurt Bookfair, Frankfurt, Germany
Finnish Photography, Lihulan, Estonia
Luonnonjälkiä, Galleria Linnankatu 13, Savonlinna, Finland
Art Fair Suomi, Helsinki, Finland
Codex 2019 Book Fair, Richmond, Kalifornia, USA
2018
Vevringautstillinga, Vevring , Norway
2017
Visual Art and Literature, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Tyskland
Landskrona Foto View: Finland, Landskrona Museum, Sweden
Artist's Books, Galleria Katariina, Helsinki, Finland
2016
Regards d’auteurs, Rocheservière, France
Dogs. A Celebration, Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Wild Strawberries, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
The Mind’s Eye, Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Automobiles, Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2015
Darkroom, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Galerie der Moderne, Munich, Germany
La Main, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, Frankrike
Trees are Poems, Finnish embassy, Washington DC, USA
2014
Nordseite, Künstlerbücher aus Finnland Klingspor-Museum, Frankfurt-Offenbach, Germany
Portraits of the 20th Century, Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
12 Contemporary artists, Galleria Antares, Sippola, Finland
2013
Trees are Poems, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Seven Seas, Galerie der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Lugares secretos y pequeños detalles, Galeria Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
2011
Under 1000, Box Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
Water — Sense and Sensation, The Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
2010
Un bestiaire fantastique, Box galerie, Bryssel, Belgium
2009
Livres finlandais de photographies, Institut finlandais, Paris, France
[in]visible #3, Amsterdam, Holland
Sivukaupalla, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2006
IndianScope : l’Inde intemporelle dans l’Inde d’aujourd’hui, Maison de la Photographie du Nord-pas-de-Calais, Lille, France
2005
Gallery Candace Perich, Katonah, New York, USA
2004
Lys over Lolland, Sakskøbing, Denmark
2003
Galerie Jam Hall, St Petersburg, Russia
1999
Gallery Candace Perich, Katonah, New York, USA
1996
Fotogravure - proces - eksperiment, Copenhagen, Denmark
1995
Portfolier og artist-books, Odense, Denmark
1994
Fünfundneunzig, Serigraphien, Lauenburg, Germany
1992
Decennium, Finnish Photographic Art of the 1980's, Bukarest, Scotland, Istanbul, Ankara, Barcelona, Madrid
1991
Diplo, Firenze, Italy
1989
Kaltlicht, 13 Fotografen aus Finnland, Düsseldorf, Germany
1988
Photofest, Houston, Texas, USA
1987
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Awards:
2009 Photobook.Award 2008+09, Photobook Festival, Kassel, Germany
1998 The Finland Prize
1987 Kodak European Award (Finland)
Works in public collections:
Aalto University Art Collection, Espoo, Finland
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Cassilhaus Collection, Durham, NC, USA
Collection of the Parliament of Finland
Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Finnish State Art Collection
The Kesko Collection, Helsinki, Finland
Klingspor Museum für internationale Buch- und Schriftkunst, Offenbach, Germany
The Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York, USA
Moderna museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, Finland
The Pro Artibus Foundation, Ekenäs, Finland
The Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
RikArt Artist Book Collection, Helsinki, Finland
Vantaa Art Museum, Finland
The Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland