Category Archives: Photography

Scandinavian Summer

Detail of Wigert Summerhouse in Brekkestø, Norway by Wenche Selmer (taken from the book Norwegian Wood – the Thoughful architecture of Wenche Selmer / photography by Frode Larsen) (via) This photo of a beautiful detail sums up something of the Scandinavian Summer, long days by the water, living with nature, escape from the burdens of [...]
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Ola Kolehmainen at Kiasma

Ola Kolehmainen, member of the Helsinki School a loose collective of artists, has an exhibition on at Kiasma at the moment. His work consists of heavily cropped photos of Modern Architecture, that instantly abstracts them and concentrates the qualities of space, light and surface. What I like about the pictures in particular is that by [...]
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Lost America

Lost America is night photography of the abandoned west.
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Kim Høltermand

Some really great non figuritive photography here by Kim Høltermand Lots of contemporary Danish Architecture I’m really enjoying looking through his site, trying to pick my next desktop background. (via)
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Tooled up

I got a Canon 400D digital slr camera yesterday (Rebel XTI in the US) so now I can shoot some proper digital photos, except here it comes in all the Scandinavian languages that means no English. Luckily i’m on this new fangled interweb thingy and can find it quite easily. Nice digital slr introduction here.
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MareNostrum

The MareNostrum in Barcelona is Europes biggest Supercomputer to date. The Photographer Simon Norfolk has documented it with a series of amazing images (like the one shown). The MareNostrum is housed in an old Chapel and thus according to Simon it has become a Divine container for the omnipresent super brain or perhaps alternatively the [...]
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Scandanavian Architecture Photographers

Jugendsali has an exhibition running till currently showing off the talents of four architectural photographers. Jens Lindhe from Denmark, Jiri Havran from Norway, Ã…ke E:son Lindman from Sweden and Jussi Tiainen from Finland. I particularly liked how Jens Lindhe subtly broke the mould of most architectural photography, it was more informal and the pictures were [...]
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Abandoned

abandoned is a great photography website of abandoned buildings, full of poigniant photos.
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Finnish Architectural Photography

A good place to start if you are unfamiliar with Current Finnish Architecture is Jussi Tiainen’s photography. He has photographed almost all of the best current architecture around in finland. Some more of his work is posted here. You can look at his books here.
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