Comfort Zone Helsinki explores one aspect of social behaviour as a main factor in individualsâ happiness. It has been made in collaboration with the MAP 6 collective and is part of the group’s Finland Project.
52 pages
148x190mm
100 numbered copies
In 2019 the World Happiness Report ranked Finland first. The report considered different factors: government framework, generosity and sociality, economy and information technology. The MAP6 collective chose this report as a common theme for the group membersâ individual photographic projects.
I decided to focus on social behaviour as a main factor in individuals’ happiness. For the experimental series âComfort Zone Helsinkiâ, I asked strangers if I could take their picture from various distances ranging from public and social spaces to personal and intimate spaces. Between pictures I moved closer to them. As soon as a person indicated I was getting too close, I stopped photographing. âComfort Zone Helsinkiâ explores openness to strangers, trust and social codes in Helsinki.
I consider each of these sessions as a generous gift of both time and trust.
Softcover
65 pages
38 photographs
self-published
Please let me know in âOrder Notesâ if you would like me to sign your copy.
This book is now sold out.
Softcover
105 pages
67 photographs
self-published
Please let me know in âOrder Notesâ if you would like me to sign your copy.
This book is now sold out.
This offer is for a copy of my book âThirty-six Views of Mount Fujiâ and an archival inkjet print showing a view of Mount Fuji not included in the book or on the website.
The âbook and printâ offer is limited to an edition of 100.
Print size: 29.7 x 21.0 cm
Photo size: 24.0 x 18.0 cm
Paper: HahnemĂŒhle Photo Rag, Matt FineArt
The book Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is published by Hatje Cantz, signed copies are available only directly from this site. Please let me know in âOrder Notesâ if you would like me to sign your copy.
Text(s) by Raoul Ries, graphic design by Raoul Ries, Julia Wagner grafikanstalt
English
2017. 80 pp., 37 ills.
hardcover 28.50 x 24.00 cm
ISBN 978-3-7757-4308-2
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is published by Hatje Cantz, signed copies are available only directly from this site. Please let me know in âOrder Notesâ if you would like me to sign your copy.
Text(s) by Raoul Ries, graphic design by Raoul Ries, Julia Wagner grafikanstalt
English
2017. 80 pp., 37 ills.
Most photographic projects aim to produce a set of pictures that is visually and semantically coherent. They contain images made with an intention and they are edited and sequenced with a goal in mind. On the other hand of the image-making spectrum we have pure snapshots, taken while bumbling around without a worry in the world, in full 19th century flĂąneur style. If the photo project is like preparing an elaborate multi-course meal, then taking snapshots is like having your hand in the candy jar and enjoying whatever random weirdness you are coming across.
âSequitur and Oh Look a Squirrelâ is a collection of snapshots sequenced like a cadavre exquis, with one visual element loosely connecting one photograph to the next. It was fun to make and now Iâm off to something entirely different.
