MY PROCESS
FROM PHOTOGRAHPS TO EXHIBITION
This project started very unnoticed in 2005. We began to think about
the dimensions of fatherhood. At some stage I wanted to make my
thoughts more concrete and took my first pictures. They were a kind of
test pictures. I tried to find nice situations and get eloquent images,
and took each one separately, not as an entity. In this way I continued
until spring 2007.
I had a lot of photographs of many fathers, but in some way the thread
was missing. In the group we had drawn up a nice list of dimensions of
fatherhood. On this list I was placed in several categories because my
objects were scattered all around the list.
At our meeting in May 2007 Miina, our curator, asked a
well-justified question: What is the common denominator in such a
variety of different stories? For a moment I was dumbfound; I had not
thought about it that way. To my own astonishment, the answer came out
of my mouth: It is me. I have experienced the same situation or similar
ones in my own life.
When I got home I wrote the first text about the dimensions in my own
fatherhood. There are, of course, more of them but these I came across
together with the people whom I photographed or in the situations we
took the pictures. The text came out on the form of small poems. It
suits me because I do not have to say so much and I do not have to make
any long sentences, either.
That was how I found the thread for my part of the exhibition.
