Sunday 28 November 2010

Jorma Puranen

While looking through portphio i found the work of Jorma Puranen. The photographer Jorma Puranen has been working in Lapland for years, so when he found a dusty box of 19th-century images of the Sámi in an archive in Paris, he decided to take them back to their native land in what he calls an imaginary homecoming. He worked overlaping images like i experiemented with with the idea of touching wood. his work is stunning, the mix of history and culture and the nature and feel of the place. Some of his images he uses text on signs in the landscape rather then using text externally like sophie calle. 
he uses light very well and his images overlaying or psycical transparisys of the images work well in contrast to the snow covered landscapes. 




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