Frozen Horizon - Landscapes from Oulu Province

The Exhibition Frozen Horizon will present the wild nature – landscapes and animals- in Oulu Province . The Exhibition is organized by Hannele Pappila, Regional Artist of Photography in Oulu Province and The Arts Council of Oulu Province.

Frozen horizon photographers:

Hautala

Huttu

photo by Jorma Luhta

Short presentation of the photographers:

Hannu Hautala, age 65, lives in Kuusamo, 200 km east from Oulu . Hautala has worket as a freelance wildlife photographer since 1970. He is the most famous Finnish wildlife photogarpher in Finland and abroad. He’s main themes are wild birds. He has been participating in several international exhibitions and won several prizes like the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year prize of honor in years 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997. He has publised over 30 books. His most noteworthy books are A year in Kuusamo 1985, Moments of Movement 1995, Colourscape 1999 and his last book The Land of My Happiness 2005.

In the book The Land of My Happiness he describes his living and his work in Kuusamo nature as follows: “All in all, it was pure chance that a quarter of centyry ago Kuusamo was destined to be the place where I was to spend the rest of my life. Feeling just as satisfied, I continue to roam Kuusamo and the nearby region. This is the Land of My Happiness . Although my hobby has become my job, I never detest going out into the wilds with my rucksack full of cameras. In the late winter – when the refrozen snow shimmers in the sun and I squat on a tree stump sipping my tea as I watch nature waking up – it occurs to me that I ought to be paying entertainment tax on this!”

All of Hautalas images in the Exhibition Frozen Horizon are taken during his trips into the Kuusamo nature, the birds he has exposed are all wild and natural in the area of Kuusamo. Hautala aslo told me that his greatest role model in photogaphing nature is and has allways been the old traditon of Chinese landscape and nature drawing.

Hautala was not able to visit Haikou this time, he is busy photographing owls in Kuusamo.

Hannu Huttu, age 42. lives in the province of Kainuu , in the municipality of Suomussalmi 250 km east from Oulu . He has been photographing for about 20 years. He photographs widely different kinds of subjects, but the most important targets are nature, hunting, hiking and dogs (hunting dogs). He has participatet in many group exhibitions for exsampel Near and Far Away 2005 and won several prizes like the Nature Photograph of the Year 2005 in Finland , in category Nature and human behavior. His images in the Exhibition Frozen Horizon have been exposed in the area of his home commune Suomussalmi during the years 2003-2005 in different seasons.

Huttu participates the exhibition Frozen Horizon with pictures of native wild animals in Oulu Province .

Inquiries:

Hannu Huttu

gsm. + 358 445 317 064

e-mail: kuvapankki@hannuhuttu.com

www.hannuhuttu.com

Kalervo Ojutkangas, age 63, lives in Vihanti, a 100 km south from Oulu . Ojutkangas has been photographing since young boy. Photography had already settled as his hobby when he became interested in larger cameras around 1970. He had little by little got familiar with the issue through periodicals and literature.

A few who had used a large format camera proved with their pictures that it has been reasonable to have one. William Henry Jackson is one of the earliest in his most active years 1860-90, Edward Weston in the thirties and others.

Large camera gives a possibility to control the image in such a way that it is ideal for a lanscape which seldom flies away even though all the adjusting takes some time. It is, of course, a matter of luck if the light is good when everything is ready. It may have escaped - or it may come when ready and you keep the nerve to wait a little while.

Landscape photography has been his main activity as a photographer from about the mid 70s to the late 80s. After having had an exhibition of Landscape Work in Helsinki 1986 and two years later having his first book Earth Prints published he feld less pressures towards the quantity of pictures. At that time some other approaches within photography became interesting again.

Ojutkangas says that Photography is a way of seeing. A way of seeing leads to taking photographs. It is not important to tell which comes first. Just let´s look at pictures and let´s allow the imaginations go.

Ojutkangas participates the exhibition Frozen Horizon with large images of landscapes from Oulu Province .

Inquiries

Kalervo Ojutkangas

gsm. + 358 400 281 912

e-mail: kalervo.ojutkangas@kotinet.com

www.kotinet.com/kalervo.ojutkangas/

Jorma Luhta, age 55, lives and works in Pudasjärvi, 150 km east from Oulu . Jorma Luhta has been photographing since 70s and he has had several exhibitions in Finland and abroad. His first exhibiton the Ranes will not return in the year 1973 was a success as well as the later exhibition The Forrest of Siberian Jay in the year 1982. He has published several books, his most noteworthy books are The Land of the Ranes 1980, The death of the Capercallie 1987, A Dans in the Swamp 1994 ja The Land of The Capercallies 2001.

Luhtas main theme has during the decades been the forrest and the swamps in the wilderness around Pudasjärvi. He has been photographing landscapes, wild animals and native birds. After the millenium he started to spend more and more time in the Forrest at the night time. The northern lights and the clear and starry sky abowe the wild Forrest fascinated him and he started photographing this night sky. Now a day he is specialized in night photography.

Luhta says that only by watching the clear sky of stars one really can understand where we humans live, the stars can tell you a story which leads you two million years back in time.

In the exhibition Frozen Horizon he will show a series of 22 images of the northern ligts and the starry sky. His series is called The Magical Night.

Inquiries

Jorma Luhta

gsm. + 358 400 191 438

Tauno Kohonen, lives in Oulu. Kohonen is one of the photographers who has faithfully captured on film the last Finnish wilderness areas year after year. He says that a photographer has to be sincere with his feelings and to be able to transform his attitude towards nature into his photographs if he wants his pictures to have anything to say to the viewer. His themes are nature and everything that people do in the nature and to the nature.

Tauno Kohonen is specialized in making of communication projects. At the same time is roduced photographed material into printed products, internet -pages and web publications and DVD -presentations. Latest newness is mobile advertising, which is attached to campaigns.

He photographs clearly, but can also bring a modern touch to photographing. The goal in the picture is harmony. Finnish nature photographs of Tauno Kohonen has get around the world many times as photo exhibitions, books and DVD -presentations. His favourite hobby and work is the nature and photographing it. The photographing trips abroad are aimed preferably in to Russia to the middle of Siberian nature or to Himalayas .

Finnish embassies have circulated the Light in The Wilderness photographic exhibition around the world in 10 copies since 2000. Light in the Wilderness was exhibited in Beijing from 20^th to 28^th of February 2001. It was set in the galleries of the Academy of Arts and Design of the Tsinghua University . Photographer Tauno Kohonen visited Beijing 17.22.2001.

Kohonen have made several multimedia presentations, some of the have won international prizes, for exampel Light in The Wilderness -multivision 1995, 3. Prize in its category at Media and Message – event in Finland , The Forest - landscape of The Finnish soul -multivision 1995, 2. Prize in its category at the Media and Message - event, Finland and Grand Award at AMI - International Festival 1996 in USA, Kuusamo - the multivision for the city of Kuusamo 2000, Gold Medal at the US International Films and Video –festival in USA and Media and Message - event in Finland and Silver Medal at the World Media Festival in Germany.
Still Images of Nature – multivision 2003, Gold Medal and the Grand Award at the World Media Festival event in Germany 2003

Kohonen have also bublised several books: Light in The Wilderness, three editions, 1992, 1993 and 2003, Lumijoki, 2005 , Oulu 400 years as an international city, 2004, Tunnelmia luonnossa, 2000, Northern Light, 1999, The Steam of Light, 1994

In the Exhibition Frozen Horizon Kohonen will show 4 winter landscapes and the Still Images of Nature – multivision as DVD version.

Inquiries

Tauno Kohonen

e-mail: tauno.kohonen@rapidriver.fi

www.rapidriver.fi

gsm +358 400 286 956

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