The forest is a place for me where I can calm down and relax. I feel like I am surrounded by a magical atmosphere and all those beautiful natural colors and shapes make me happy and worry-free. I discovered PinjaPuu in a little eco design and vintage shop called Forget-Me-Not in the heart of Tampere, Finland. Those beautiful designs immediately caught my attention. Now I am able to take a little piece of Finland and the calming feeling of the forest with me every day and everywhere.
Pinja Kärkkäinen is a young Finnish designer who makes nature-inspired jewelry and accessories. The jewelry line is called PinjaPuu which means “Pine tree” in English. The jewelry is made of Finnish birch plywood, it is light as a feather, produced ecofriendly and rich in detail. You can definitely see that Pinja puts a lot of effort in her handmade jewelry line and that she truly loves her job: Not only the jewelry, but also the packaging is designed and made with love.
Johnny Silver
David Reumüller, who is an artist and musician from Graz, shows a performative installation at the Neue Galerie Graz that concerns central questions of identity-formation and the cult of stars. Mostly it is about Johannes Silberschneider who is also known as “Johnny Silver”.
The exhibitions runs until 14.05.2017.
“I’m not real. I’m theatre.”
If you would like to see more of my work I would highly recommend you checking out my instagram page. I try to post a few times a week. I hope you like it!
Spring is here!
I’m very sorry for not posting anything for such a long time. Due to a job change I was really busy the last months. BUT now spring arrived and I am looking forward taking more pictures. I bought myself a new lens which I tested last weekend. A big thank you goes to my lovely sister who was my model that day. It’s always a pleasure to take pictures of her!
Newspaper photo
Looking through the newspaper can be quite surprising sometimes. Yesterday I spotted this photograph I took a while ago. It’s larger than a page!
Birthday breakfast
Two days ago I celebrated my birthday. Luckily it was on a Sunday so my whole family had time for a long breakfast.
Hello 2017!
“New Year. New Feelings. New Chances.
Same Dreams, Fresh Starts.”
Happy holidays!
2016 was such a great year for me – mostly because of you! I would like to thank everyone who worked with me this year. I had so many great projects which made me and my camera really happy.
It was also the first time ever that I had something like a temporary photographic studio at a company for a few months. This was really a big thing for me.
I would also like to say thank you to my subscribers, followers and basically everyone who visited my homepage/instagram page and/or gave feedback on my pictures. I wish you happy holidays and all the best for 2017! I don’t know what the next year will bring, but hopefully I will be able to show a lot more photographs and I’m looking forward posting them for you!
Perchten
Also this year I took pictures of the “Perchten” which are wild pagan spirits widespread throughout the Austrian region. When they appear alone or in groups with their masks and bells in the night I’m always a bit afraid, but it would be a pity not to take pictures of this tradition.
Sweet Birthday
This week my lovely sister celebrated her birthday. My mum and I made her a massive “YAY”-decoration to make her birthday a little bit more festive.
Großglockner
A month ago my family and I decided to go on a hike close to the Großglockner – the highest mountain of Austria. It was really impressive to walk the road near its peak and the scenic glacier that supplements it. We had a magnificent view on this sunny day and enjoyed the gorgeous panorama the whole day.
A Photographic Journey
Martin Parr is one of my favourite photographers of all time. His current exhibition “A Photographic Journey” at Kunst Haus Wien is ending soon (on 02.11.2016) – I went all the way to Vienna just for this exhibition yesterday. The Kunst Haus Wien is a gorgeous museum designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser and hosts the world’s only permanent exhibition of Hundertwasser’s works as well as temporary exhibitions such as Martin Parr’s photographic journey. It was a great experience to finally see Martin Parr’s pictures in real life and get the giggles because of the humoristic way his photographs are taken. If you are in Vienna right now I would highly recommend “A Photographic Journey”. Martin Parr has also created the photo series “Cakes and Balls” – a series dealing with the clichés and traditions in Vienna – especially for this exhibition. Don’t miss it!
Family stories
I had a really good time photographing the Moser family. It was not only great to create a collection of images for the family to treasure, but it was also so much fun to make a nice packaging for the pictures.
