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    	<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 02:44:54 GMT</pubDate>
    	
    	
 		
 			
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         		<title>Phone Booths</title>
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	                I took this picture while having my vacation in [url=http://www.london.gov.uk/]London[/url]. I then manipulated the photo with [url=http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/]PhotoShop[/url] making the background black and white leaving the booths originally colored. Finally, I ordered it as a poster and framed. For more information about this project, visit [url=http://www.mattimattila.fi/comments/kaksi_puhelinkoppia]my Finnish blog[/url] and read how I made this thing.
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         		<title>Sonar 2006 self-published photo book</title>
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	                Made from my Sonar photoset, which I&#039;m pretty happy with as a piece of work.

Just like the A4 one I made last month, it has too much pink in the colours so skin tones look a bit odd. Nevertheless, it&#039;s a very satisfying object and a great souvenir for all of us who went.
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	            <link>http://www.thinglink.org/thing:636rpe</link>
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         		<title>Kite Arial Photography Rig</title>
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	                An implementation of the Kite Arial Photography rig featured in Make Magazine.
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         		<title>Summer Solstice</title>
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	                Photo collage
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         		<title>Wood Stork</title>
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	                Photo collage
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         		<title>Two Talking Artifacts story book</title>
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	                Photo: Suk Ki Wong


Two Talking Artifacts is a story book inspired by a story written by a Hong Kong writer Yuen Chui Cheong. The work is presented in image sequence and dialogue; my perspective reading the story. Perspective distorts reality and makes the absolute truth unknowable. 
First, I translated the Chinese text into English; I arranged the sentences and paragraphs differently from the Chinese, which is based on the logic of Contemporary Chinese poem. Then I picked some of the sentences, mixed them up and rewrote them as a dialogue: Some people are talking about a woman named Wu Mei.
Influenced by the interrelationship between images and words, inspired by the photo montage and the reading of comics, I explore the possibility of reading images. I start by looking at their rhythms and then present images by layering, which is very different from the conventional representation of lining photos on a flat surface. The images themselves and their positioning entail a message of ?something and nothing?, as if something has the quality to go from existent to non-existent. 

Suk Ki Wong who goes by the name Ki is one of the outstanding female photographers in Hong Kong. Specialised in portraiture, believing in instinct, afraid of being photographed; understanding the allure and the destruction/violence of photography. Therefore, her camera is always gentle when facing anyone who is photographed. She wishes to take pictures with a sense of humanity and humor. Perhaps fascinated by fairy tales and cartoons, and fond of short stories as well as prose, therefore, loves to talk and compose stories producing a series of photos to convey a story or an incident.   

Contact:
sukkiwong(at)gmail.com, sukkiwong(at)yahoo.com.hk
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         		<title>Driven by Love and Fury</title>
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	                Photo: Marco Melander

Conversations between J?rn Donner and the Artist Stefan Lindfors,  picture editing

This diploma work presents photographs that I have shot during 15 years of designer and artist Stefan Lindfors and his works. I have shed light on the working conditions and methods behind the images at the same time analyzing the content of my photographs through representation. Representation means presenting and describing things in a new way. My photographs don?t only present an object, but they are also mental representations of Lindfors works. Lindfors himself as a person is also presented in my photographs as this same kind of object. In my images I have aimed for a strong interpretation and tried to set them as dramatically as possible.

Marco Melander is best known for photographs taken for the designer and artist Stefan Lindfors. He has also worked with other Finnish designers, including Yrjo Kukkapuro, Yrjo Wiherheimo and Harri Koskinen.
Since the start of his career, Melander has worked in close co-operation with the business sector and marketing. He has won several advertising awards. In 1999 he received the second and in 2002 the first Best of the Year award from Grafia, the Association of Professional Graphic Designers in Finland.
Melander&#039;s photos have appeared in several international newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Blueprint, MD, Domus and Washington Post.

Contact:
marco.melander(at)saunalahti.fi
+358 50 556 6680
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         		<title>Reality in the Making photographs</title>
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	                Photo: Ville Lenkkeri

The series of photographs deals with my observation that our life in contemporary society alienates us from everything original and so we settle for the processed. My concern is that personal experience is being nullified and replaced with information learned secondarily. Thus we are potentially drifting away from the world and our reality is becoming something that is interpreted and produced through action rather than something that is by itself.
My treatment of the subject is not unequivocally critical but rather observant through interest. I aim to remind of the existence of the phenomenon through my pictures, not give unambiguous patterns of behaviour to uproot it. With the help of patterns we construct a more understandable image of an otherwise impossibly complex world. Subjective slices of reality that are distorted through choice become like self-portraits and thus recognisable creatures. Through our actions, the world adapts a form that resembles ourselves. The series of photographs presents different models and simulation that try to copy or possible even replace what?s real. 

Ville Lenkkeri studied film at FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, from 1996?98, but later changed his orientation and medium to photography. Lenkkeri earned a Bachelor&#039;s degree in art photography at FAMU in 1998-2001 and a Master&#039;s at the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 2002-2006.
During his MA studies Lenkkeri has participated extensively in photographic and art exhibitions both in Finland and abroad. He has also held some solo shows.
Ville Lenkkeri&#039;s latest photographic series explores the increasing predominance of models and simulation in our experience of the world. The series, called Reality in the Making, is also his diploma work for the University of Art and Design Helsinki.

Contact:
vlenkkeri(at)uiah.fi
+358 50 347 4914
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         		<title>Bad Idea</title>
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	                Photo: Mikko Ijas

Conceptual paintings, photographs, and objects


My diploma work &#034;Bad Idea&#034; is based on a notion of the essence of spontaneous ideas that are mostly psychotic, obscene or ordinary. I deliberately tried to choose an approach that seems dubious. My selections have spawned a process where unpredictability and self-humiliation are a possibility.
The themes of the works are the effect of environment and community on the development of a human being in addition to the power structures of society. The works are humorous on a superficial level, but they deal with serious issues. This contrariety, unpredictability and irony are indeed an important part of my whole output. The creations are conceptual paintings, photographs and objects.
The usage of photographs as a means of categorisation and observation has been the basis of my photographs. The basis of my paintings has been the relationship between painting and man?s primitive way of perceiving and verbalising abstract concepts with the help of symbols. 

Sponsors: Hewlett-Packard, Uudenmaan rahasto, Uudenmaan taidetoimikunta, Finnfoto

Mikko Ijas was born in Jyvaskyla. He currently lives and works in Helsinki. Ijas has held several solo exhibitions since 1996, the latest of them in Gallery Parasit3 in Helsinki in spring 2005 and one in the Jyvaskyla Art Museum in autumn 2005. He has also participated regularly in group exhibitions. In 2003 Ijas was intern at the Polaroid 20X24 Studio in New York. Ijas has works in many public and private collections.

Contact:
mikko_ijas(at)hotmail.com 
+358 50 9122 944
http://ijas.cjb.net
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