https://www.instagram.com/senttiapponen/ The Jouko Lehtola Foundation has awarded the Young Hero Grant, which promotes documentary photography, to Antti Sepponen from Lahti. This year’s recipient was chosen from among ten candidates by film director Virpi Suutari, who explains her choice as follows: “Antti Sepponen photographs the ordinary in an extraordinary way. Beneath the everyday surfaces, something strange[…]
Ten talented young photographers are nominated for the award, from which film director Virpi Suutari will select the winner. The Foundation has selected the finalists together with the Finnish Association of Photographic Artists. The prize is 5,000 euros. The winner will be announced in autumn 2025. His exhibition will be on display at the Hippolyte[…]
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Veera Konsti: It’s Complicated
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With his pictures, Jouko also wanted to remind us that despite injustices, we are surrounded by beauty and love. By photographing the Finnish landscape in his morally tough Finnish View series, he also softened the series as whole.
I remember Jouko being somehow enthralled by these markings made by people on themselves. Very soon after meeting Tommi, he decided to photograph other people who had adorned themselves with tattoos and body piercings.However, he was not so much interested in why these people had had themselves tattooed or pierced, his was a purely aesthetic[…]
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