exhibited work

These are my first photos that are being exhibited in a public place. And not just any place! The venue is the legendary Yo-talo in Tampere, my old hometown. The pics are huge, the JP pic is 125cm x 65cm and the Jussi/Timo pic is 180cm x 125cm. What a start for my exhibition career (add sarcasm tags around "career" :D)! The photos are a part of the interior design together with 5-6 other rock photos so they'll hang around in the bar for a while, I think :) I'm pretty proud and I'd like to thank Petra-Miisa Juusenaho of Interiori for this chance, she's the one who "discovered" my photos :) If you live in Tampere or visit Tampere, go have a look at the pics and tell me what you think!

Metsatöll

I followed Ensiferum on their European Tour for a week in October 2009. I also made friends with Tracedawn and Metsatöll who were also fun to shoot, looking forward to shooting more of them! So get your asses back to Finland! :D I concentrated mainly on Ensiferum, since I was on assignment for them, but also shot the special guest bands. Since I can't publish the Ensiferum photos yet, here is the first Metsatöll pic for you :) Enjoy! There's more to follow, stay tuned :)

Ensiferum: making of From Afar-video

Still images from the video shooting. We spent some 13 hours in the woods :) Here some teasers for the upcoming video!

Update: The new video is on YouTube, check it out, it's awesome!

Tuska 2009: Ensiferum

In this year's Tuska I was only shooting Ensiferum. I was late for the actual accreditation and "only" had the artist pass organised by Ensiferum ;) Funny enough I was entitled to go backstage and move quite freely, but wasn't allowed to the pit to shoot other bands. Oh well, that way I got to spend more time with my friends and enjoy the atmosphere! In addition I was allowed to move freely on and off stage and shoot the whole Ensiferum gig. Which is always nice and I always feel privileged. So here's what I came up with. Some of the photos have strange vignetting which I think must be from the heat in the tent. At some point when I was shooting on stage I saw that strange phenomenon and it was really infernally hot there. Oh well, fortunately it looks actually quite cool.

The show was awesome, the tent (Sue stage) was packed and the audience loved Ensiferum and no wonder! You should've seen the pit :D I've seen Ensiferum twice in Central Europe and there the atmosphere is always amazing since people just LOVE Ensiferum over there. The Tuska gig, however, was at least as great regarding the atmosphere as any of the German/Swiss gigs I've seen. Just great :)

Good news is also that I'll be traveling with Ensiferum in October and shoot 2 gigs in France and 4 in Spain. That'll become an awesome project! A music photographer's dream come true :)













And after the gig it's time for a beer ;)

Rockstad Falun: H.E.A.T

H.E.A.T plays great 80s hard rock. They are energetic live performers and really take their audience into consideration. Hope to get to shoot them more in the future, this time the light was really boring since the concert was an open air gig and during daylight time. Fortunately the sun didn't shine and that saved some of the ambience :)

Rockstad Falun: Sabaton

So I opened my festival season in Falun, Sweden. Rockstad Falun (rocktown Falun in English) is a great, small town festival organised by Sabaton. This year their concert was also to celebrate their 10th anniversary. And what a gig it was! A lot of pyros, great stage show, the guys were in top condition and gave their best to the audience. They were so much fun to shoot and I managed to get a grip of that adrenaline kick from the "three first - no flash-ambience" again.

Needless to say the audience loved Sabaton as well. I heard there were people of 10 different nationalities and some had taken a bus ride of over 30 hours to get there. Unfortunately the weather was a traditional festival weather, i.e. not the best possible, it was raining but at least there was no mud: the festival was held in the middle of the town on a market ;)

After the festival we had a fun after party with the guys, of course ;) No awkward photos were taken, I usually keep my camera packed after I've "done the job." I'd just like to thank the Sabaton guys again for the great gig and attitude and for being so nice. The same goes to Olof from Skrikhult Production, their Scandinavian agent. A huge thank you for all the hospitality I experienced on my trip to Falun :)

In addition to Sabaton's I also shot the H.E.A.T gig. They were a lot of fun to shoot too and a great live band. At this point I've uploaded only the Sabaton pics, H.E.A.T will follow a.s.a.p :)

Pellavarock 2008

Attention, this post is still under construction, more pics will follow :)

The festival season has begun already and I am once again reminiscing the festivals of last summer. In this post I'll be presenting some shots from the Pellavarock festival which is held in Lammi. A lovely, small festival with good artists. Well organised and the atmosphere was great.

All in all, it was really nice to shoot the festival, my favorite band to shoot being Bloodbath. Who could resist some fake blood and right attitude and guys who aren't taking themselves dead seriously although they are making death metal ;)

BLOODBATH

SOTAJUMALA

RYTMIHÄIRIÖ

KIUAS