Tekla Inari: Valokuvan pimeys / The darkness of a photograph

Completion year: 2023

Size: 14,5x20,5 cm

Edition: 100

This collage-like essay approaches the topics of contemporary society, the unconscious in photography, the formulation of trauma art, and the production of photo books. Individual paragraphs criss-cross and create webs between each other, forming a connected constellation of mental patterns. At the core of this conglomeration there lies the depth or darkness beneath the immediate visual surface of a photograph; a space where the author imagines that all the shadows of human society also reside. At the same time, this personal and visionary poetic essay views contemporary photography through the lenses of anticapitalism and psychoanalysis.

80 pages, essay and one color photograph. In Finnish.

2. edition in 2026.

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