Next Level (UK Photography magazine) exhibits Helsinki

Next Level is makin their next issue, nr. 20 about Helsinki, it consists of 27 finnish artists and their works. I met their chief editor Sheyi Antony Bankale in the Finnish Museum of Photography this spring, he seemed like a strait up guy and probably the idea for this issue grew during his stay here.

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Focus on images?

A Swedish newspaper is aiming on giving their readers a better product and reading experience by getting rid of three long-time photographers who in their view "can't WRITE the kind of stuff they need". Their aim is to have journalist takin the IMAGES and then, doing good writing too.

Interesting.

Last Riga

Book order status

Exiting times, Blurb confirmed that my book is on the way, Fedex says it shipped yesterday and is now in Paris, estimated delivery by next Wednesday, hopefully sooner.

Later Riga

More pictures, i try to keep it simple and clean.

Early Riga

Got up early to check out the Old town again.

Riga

Our class arrived yesterday in Riga and it's been good thus far. Im still a bit unsure on what to photograph here, the idea is to do a project within this week and it will be a part of an exhibition in the spring.

I started on my current plan today, documenting the city and the people in it, watching for interesting locations and clean enviroments and waiting for people to pass or just document the surroundings in a clean way. My second idea is to photograph 24h stores and pharmacies, maybe, well see if I start it.

Some pics:

The book and teaching

Well, mmm....Im teaching a photography course for 8:th grades at St. Olofsskolan in Turku. A swedish school with, mmm, lot's of students. I do 3x 70min. sets with every class, theory, practice and post processing. Okay, it's been a good experience on teaching and what it is for kids in this age. The theory class is heavy for them, I try to start up light, presenting myself, show my pictures, speak about why I got into photography and how I've andvanced. Then going briefly into photo history about 10-15min. The essential changes from Camera Obscura to Niepce to negatives to digital cameras etc. The last bit is heavy, understanding the elements of exposing a picture, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance. It's hard to keep them interested with the technique, I show them the actual image of shutters and apertures, the change in depth of field through aperture and motion through shutter, what the ISO setting means and so forth.

But you really need to try this to understand it. But it might spark an idea or get them to go further with photograhy so it's nice to know.

In every class there is about 3-5 SLR owners (out of 20-30 kids) so it's quite common to have a system camera. Most of them still sit on the KIT lens though and that's the biggest limitation of a SLR - a system that can deliver with the right user and accessories. I've tried to address this limitation to avoid future salesmen from dealing with what I've been through durin my customer service years ;)

I've made some minor changes on my reportage books, some finishing touches and I'll probably send it for print soon.