SELF·ISH
To be a good portrait photographer you have to understand how it feels to have a camera pointed at you. It is also interesting to sit on two chairs at a same time - to be a model and a photographer. "Self-ish" is my lifelong project of self portraits.
My first staged self-portrait is from the year 2007, and my first random “selfie” from 1999. I started the routine to document my life through self-portraits in 2009 and hopefully will carry on throughout the rest of my life. The portrait styles vary. There may be a flash snap or carefully composed idea in a wider context.
In some cases I don't want to use a self-timer or transmitter, and I ask my friends to push the button. Thank you Ain Lätti, Stina Kase, Ene Vihtla, Gert Kelu, Marilin Leenurm, Kadri Vanaselja, Liis Tamra, Kärt Kokk, Roman Purga, Kristian Kruuser, Maria Luisk, Emma Yoon.
Letters and word are just systems, a structure of symbols, nothing else.
This is my autobiography.
2023 "Brother from another mother"
2022 “Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt Euch!”
2021 “One year of insanity”
2020 "Sphere-20"
2020 "Birthday morning"
2020 “Professional photographer”
2019 "BREXIT"
2018 "Studio of Dreams"
2017 “Inside”
2017 “Right before the peace arrived”
2016 “American dream”
2017 "Fotomat Berlin"
2016 “Steve Zissou”
2016 “Resurrection"
2015 “Unknown Rock-star”
2015 “Wifebeater”
2015 “Two-faced Janus”
2014 “Lumbersexual”
2014 “Kinky cowboy”
2014 “With Pepe”
2013 “Noir”
2013 “Christmas gifts”
2012 “Siblings”
2012 “Oblivion”
2012 “Cover-boy”
2012 “Sinuhe”
2012 “Portrait of the beard”
2011 “Polar Explorer”
2011 “Fishy friend”
2010 “Portrait with a friend”
2009 “it's a wrap”
2009 “In the morgue”
2008 “Butterface”
2007 “Ranger wannabe”
2006 “Brothers”
2005 “Finnish posing guide”
2001 “First time in London”
2000 “Highschool photographer”