I have never thought myself as a great black and white photographer. Quite opposite, color has been my strong field. I don’t actually ”look for colors” when shooting, but when I´m going through and editing photos I don´t have to do a deep self analysis to notice that colors are The Thing in many succesful shots of mine. So I guess that colors are somewhere in me all the time, some kind of natural or intuitional thing that just is there, influencing my photography in background.

Despite of that, when I started to think about offering a small collection of prints I right away turned towards black an white. Even for my own surprise, maybe. Going outside of comfort zone? Not really. I played around with few photos for a while, maybe couple of days, on my Mac and that was it. When I found the recipes I liked then rest of the process was just doing it, with small individual adjustments.

The result is set of nine images shot during autumn 2014 exept one which dates back to 1999. No strong theme, but all are landscapes – most actually cityscapes shot in Helsinki. Couple of them are pure nature shots, one is about pure brutalistic construction of urban environment. Most have a combination of nature and human intervention. So I guess that might be the loose theme of this set. How we build our environment successing or failing in fitting our doings with all that has been there before us. Trees and rocks, rivers and moss.

Prints will be ready for ordering later in February or early March.