Mikko, Sleep Markings, 2001
© Maarit Hohteri
Goshia, Poznan, 2005
© Maarit Hohteri
Helsinki School photographer Maarit Hohteri finds meaning in the world within her portraits of those that are close to her. She writes,
I document moments in my life by photographing people who are close to me. By means of photography, I seek to store my own and my friends’ feelings and observations about life and about being a human being. As I look at the pictures, I remember the changing flats, relationships, feelings of insecurity and my own fickle moods. Photography is also an attempt to arrange a seemingly random life into a whole; a story with a past, present and future.
Some of the results are really beautiful. I can’t help but think of Shen Wei‘s series Almost Naked.
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October 10, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Contemprary Finnish photography is big today. Red Room by M. Hohteri (in Polish, scroll down for pictures) has stuck in my mind for some reason.
October 11, 2007 – 12:19 am
or elinor carruci’s closer. a number of “sleep marks”
February 1, 2009 – 4:04 pm
hi,
i would like to give compliments to your photo entitled “hanna and hanna dying eyelashes” because i think it is a good symbol of conjugality : mama’s last seduction vs. baby’s fulfillment !!
nice work…