Last month, me and Marko Rantanen went shoot­ing around the Hel­sinki met­ro­pol­itan area for Helsingin San­o­mat omakaupunki.fi ad cam­paign. “Oma kaupunki”, which trans­lates as “My city”, is a site where people can exchange tips, events, news and ser­vices. The cam­paign theme is “Greet­ings from the neigh­bor­hood. This is what Oma Kaupunki is made of.” All […]

I star­ted off my sum­mer vaca­tion by going to my girlfriend’s sum­mer cot­tage. Not a cloud in the sky with tem­per­at­ures near 30° C. The water in the lake was at best 23° C. Scenery was excel­lent, but you must pay a price to the mos­qui­tos. Below, a photo of my feet after being drained […]

I pur­chased a Polar­oid SX-70 from eBay and some PX 100 film from The Impossible Pro­ject. Unfor­tu­nately the expos­ure meter on the cam­era is mal­func­tion­ing. First it was giv­ing inac­cur­ate tim­ings and now it’s stuck to a single shut­ter speed. Luck­ily it wasn’t too expens­ive so tak­ing it to a repair shop will bring it […]

I shot a few rolls of Rol­lei Retro 400 S and I must say it was the most dif­fi­cult film I’ve used so far. The con­trasts are pretty wild and expos­ure is hard to pre­dict, but when you suc­ceed the res­ults are very pleas­ant. It has a dreamy qual­ity to it. Over 50% of my […]