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i pin down my own constellations

Rovaniemi Design Week 2011

I have been on photography assignment for Rovaniemi Design Week for the past three days now. Two more design-full days to come, with the grand finale spectacle of the Art & Design Faculty of the University of Lapland coming up on Saturday. A week full of challenges for me, but also full of contagious creative spirit!


Design for the skies! Launch of the Night of Design.


The Design Boutique of design students is the best place to find a new hot item.


Laughter in the Night of Design served by Lapland University Theater improvisation.


An interactive projection of Aku Meriläinen and Miila Kankaanranta illuminated the wall of Cafe Kauppayhtiö on the Night of Design.


Rimpparemmi folk ensemble premiered their new show.


Design is sharing - learning weaving in Taitolappi.


The last stretch of Team REDDO in the Design 24h competition.


Herbert Enns, professor of architecture from University of Manitoba shed light to his views on arctic building and living in a seminar of challenges on Wednesday.


Varpu Hautala writes her name with Laura Valkama's typeface - can you read the creature letters?


Darja Zaitsev, a superhero of the Pohjola In/Out show moving clothing design to be showcased on Saturday.

NATI design 2011-2020

NATI design : VISION 2020

to create realities-that-do-not-exist

Ainonkatu 1, Rovaniemi.
Part of Rovaniemi Design Week 2011.





The first enterprise to undertake the new strategy for service design in the University of Lapland.

Transparent dimension at VALO

Transparent dimension (3photos), 2011
Part of a Rovaniemi Design Week 2011 exhibition at gallery VALO, Yliopistonkatu 8, Rovaniemi

Paratiisimanner at PILKE

Paratiisimanner (Paradise continent), 2010
Part of a Rovaniemi Design Week exhibition at PILKE, Ounasjoentie 6, Rovaniemi

The vast sea of woodlands separating two tectonic plates and the persistence of what binds two people together. By placing personal into the context of known myth I create my own ritual to reach one spiritual paradise continent.

trainyard nights

secrets and the last kiss of asphalt

Moosehide Gathering 2010

In summer 2010, traveling across Canada I ended up all the way in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. I volunteered for the bi-annual Moosehide Gathering in the Moosehide village few kilometers down the Yukon river from Dawson City. The gathering celebrates and honors the heritage of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in people. A heritage that survives since it was taken to their Alaskan cousins as songs and dances for safe-keeping and brought back only in 1993.

When I tell about this, and as people know my ways with photography, they say I must have gotten so many good photos from there. I took seven frames during the whole 4-day gathering - five of them you see here - simply due to the fact that I get overrun by a feeling of exploitation. The same happened in the suburb of Kayamandi in Cape Town, South Africa, 2007, where I only took one photograph, outside the actual area.

I do believe in the power of photography as a transformative medium, an agent of change, as a promoter of dialogue, as a facilitator, as a very important means of communication in the globalized world.

Sure a picture is worth a thousand words - but for what?

Pohjola IN / OUT pt.2

A promotional photoshoot for Rovaniemi Design Week 2011 Fashion Show. Join the show on 19th February in the University of Lapland. More info.

Photographer: Emilia Haukka
Design: Merja Ulvinen
Make-up & hair: Pirita Norvanto
Model: Jatta & Krisse
Featuring: Northern Gate Safaris huskies

Pohjola IN / OUT pt.1

A promotional photoshoot for Rovaniemi Design Week 2011 Fashion Show.

Photographer: Emilia Haukka
Design: Merja Ulvinen
Make-up & hair: Pirita Norvanto
Model: Jatta
Featuring: Northern Gate Safaris huskies