Photographer Juha-Pekka Inkinen’s bilingual photo book Miten tavarat ovat – sisustamisen toisinajattelijoita/The Way of Things – Dissidents of Interior Design was published in October by Kustannus Oy Taide. In the last few years Inkinen photographed homes – including mine – that may not be considered as the most average Finnish homes. 32 of them ended... Continue Reading →
In the summer of 1988 when living in Turku, I started a documentary photo project that later got a title 7:19:4. The correct name would have been VII:19:4 as the central districts in the city of Turku are identified by Roman numerals. So the place that I documented was located in the 7th district, and... Continue Reading →
In autumn 125 years ago the Porvoo Cellulosefactory (Porvoon Selluloosatehdas) in Tolkkinen – about nine kilometres from the Southern Finland town Porvoo – was opened. The pulp mill was closed in 1975. Even before the cellulose factory there was a saw mill and the sawmill industry continued all the way until the end of 2009... Continue Reading →
There are many reasons to love a certain artist or group; it may be the songs, the values, the style – or maybe you just support them because they are your friends. Music had been one of the biggest things in my life since the 70s. Then I left it for a decade and came... Continue Reading →
I attended three Matty James Cassidy gigs this month in England: Counting House in Leicester, The Old Wine Vaults in Eastwood, Nottingham and Gullivers in Manchester. The light level in every venue was so low that I had to use a very long exposure time (I use film camera), so the result is very “artistic”.... Continue Reading →
I photographed these beautiful automobiles on the 27th of May 2018 in an event here in my home town, Porvoo. Three photos of each vehicle.
I originally wrote this story for Juha-Pekka Inkinen’s book Punk on kuollut, eläköön hardcore that I edited. The book, released in 2009, is a collection of Inkinen’s photographs of the Finnish hardcore punk scene in the mid 80s and texts by people who were involved it. I wrote two texts for the book and this… Continue Reading →
Katriina Etholén, MA, editor of the book Punk on kuollut, eläköön hardcore (Punk Is Dead, Long Live Hardcore, see Maximum Rocknroll issue 319) is a freelance journalist specializing in industrial heritage and documentary photography. In the 80s she was making an anarcho-cultural fanzine and leading an unofficial party called Turun Palo (Turku Fire), which were... Continue Reading →
I start my new “career” as a blog writer with a story about one of my favourite bands, Dropkick Murphys. It is based on an interview I made in April 2006 and loosely on an article I wrote back then. The reason behind this is because that old article (which was published in a Finnish... Continue Reading →
