In the Einch River Valley. Kola Peninsula. July 2009

This image was produced in a northern landscape that retains its spatial and environmental integrity. Such territories exist largely outside routine human use and therefore preserve scale, rhythm, and light structures formed prior to modern industrial intervention. In a cultural-historical perspective, landscapes of this type contributed to the formation of the visual and spatial framework from which the mythological geography of the Kalevala developed, including the concept of Pohjola as a domain situated beyond inhabited space.

Large-format film photography followed by professional drum scanning allows the recording of the material structure of the environment, including tonal gradation and surface detail of stone, water, and air. This file constitutes a documentary visual record of a northern landscape rather than an interpretative or stylistic representation.