Workshop 2. New Harmony - Man-Altered Landscape
Teacher: Ville Lenkkeri (Finland / Stockholm, Sweden)
The focus of the workshop was on discovering a new beauty in the nature that has been in some ways changed by the human presence. The human activity often tends to fight against the natural order of the nature - changed by the humans into landscapes or scenes, the original state and harmony of nature do not work anymore. The workshop was about studying the new possibilities for beauty to surface from what generally might be understood as disruption or even destruction. The students tried to see and find the new sort of beauty and harmony in man-altered landscapes and express it through photography. It the end, it is all about accepting our world as it is and ourselves as parts of it.
Requirements/technique: DSLR camera, or analogue with possibility of producing ready images during the course. Take along your portfolio or other earlier images for conversations and to build a coherent connection between the new and the existing images.
Ville Lenkkeri was born in Oulu, Finland, in 1972. Permanently lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He began studying film in Prague and also briefly in London before taking photography degrees at FAMU in Prague and later at the University of Art and Design (Taik) in Helsinki. Lenkkeri represents the Helsinki School of photography, which has succeeded in turning contemporary Finnish photography into an outstanding cultural export. The photographer’s refined way of playing with reality and fiction continually leads the viewer onto thin ice. His works have been exhibited internationally in venues such as Gallery Taik, Berlin; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Point of View Gallery, New York, etc. In the last 5 years he has published two books - Reality in the Making, in 2006, and The Place of No Roads, in 2009.