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My image, “Summer day by the pool” is a part of a larger
project I worked with during 2003-2004. This particular
image I send to you is a digital collage.
Here, some of my thoughts before I got started with my
project, City Spaces:
“The aim with City Spaces is to study urban structures and
their ”spatial sequences”. Spatial sequences are made up of
the spaces between buildings and structures. The spaces,
streets, and open squares among the buildings – the urban
living rooms – are not without meaning; in fact, they are
the focal point of urban architecture. People gather and
meet in market places and open squares: they hear the latest
news and gossip, get the feel of the atmosphere, and catch
the scents lingering in the air.
The idea behind City Spaces is to approach the subject in a
way that is characteristic to my work, in other words by
means of traditional photographs taken from an unusual angle,
birds’ eye perspective. The photographs will be taken in
Gothenburg, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland with a large format
camera from a crane at a height of 25-30 meters”.
In July 2003 I arrive to this pool just outside Helsinki. It
was warm and sunny. Kids were swimming, the parents sat
close by talking and drinking coffee. When my truck/crane
arrives a bit later, the parents get irritated and stressed
due to the trucks’ exhaust fumes and start packing there
things. I talk to them to calm them and they stay. This is
my first photograph from the heights, which I’m afraid of,
so I’m nervous. I rig my camera on the crane and go up to 25
meters. With shaking, sweaty hands I take the picture.
Afterwards I don’t even remember that I’d been up there. A
few hours later, when the negatives are developed I’m
overwhelmed, because the image looks so nice…
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