Some reportage stuff from last summer. This one is from Åland. The topic was basically about the traditions and the present of this special area. The writer and I tried to think about the stereotypes related to finnish Archipelago – you know, stuff in tourist brochures- and then compare that ideological landscape to concepts that we percieved as “reality”. This was done by finding people with different kind of stories: workers from Thailand, footballers from US, local rockers and so on. So it was also a sort of “outsiders looking in”  angle to the identity of Åland. The story itself turned out to be ok but in the photos this method resulted as a very scattered outcome. The result wasn’t a catastrophe but I’ve should have had balls to take more focused visual approach. But you’ll live and learn. Hopefully. These images are mostly the same ones used in the paper.  The story was published in Helsingin Sanomat.

EDIT: One photo added.

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