Large-format film photography

This section brings together two landscape series connected not only by geography, but by time — and by a distinctly northern way of imagining space, where landscape is never entirely neutral.

These images form an archival record of northern territories and the Luga River valley, captured at a moment when they still retained their natural integrity. Many of these places have since been altered or lost as a result of logging, economic activity, and irreversible environmental change.

These landscapes exist at the boundary between documentary observation and mythological perception. Much like the spaces evoked in the Kalevala, they are perceived not as precise locations on a map, but as a broader northern realm — a borderland charged with memory and latent symbolism. Forest, water, stone, and light function here not as background, but as an independent visual language.

The photographs do not attempt to reconstruct loss or comment on it directly. Instead, they preserve a state — silence, terrain, and the breath of space itself. This is neither nostalgia nor an ecological manifesto, but a visual document in which the North appears as a carrier of long, almost epic memory.

Both series may be seen as fragments of a single northern world — historically layered, culturally unstable, and suspended between reality and myth.