Life as a Photography Student and Other Stuff. All Images Copyright by Ida Taavitsainen.
This Christmas I’ll be working for my aunt in her pop up vintage store. The store is open from 28.12.2009-5.1.2010 and we’ll be selling some fantastic vintage pieces so come and take a look! A part of the profits will go to charity so it’s an even better reason to shop!
I managed to make it home before the snow came and messed up Heathrow. I’m so happy to be back here in the cold. Merry Christmas everyone.
I’m so happy to go back home tomorrow – if I’ll make it. It might snow tomorrow, which in this country means that the whole nation stops functioning. I’m panicking and having nightmares of spending Christmas in Medway.
The old police station that I photographed last year (you can see the pictures here) no longer exists. A couple of weeks ago when I walked past it it looked like this, but now it’s gone. I think it’s quite sad, because I liked to look at the reflections in the windows on my way home in the evenings.
My dad’s old Canon thought it would be really fun to shoot 33 out of 36 images in the same frame. I wasn’t so happy about it because I lost almost all my images from my trip to Stockholm, but at the same time I think this multiexposed image is very pretty. So I guess this goes under the category of lucky accidents.
Yesterday when I came home from London, there was a pink envelope waiting for me. Pink envelopes always remind me of the movie Broken Flowers (if you haven’t seen it, do it now), but also of my cousin Pinja. She sent me many pink letters last year, so I immediatley knew this was from her.
The letter reminded me that this picture of Pinja (and me!) that I took for Auvo’s web pages last summer was still unposted. I really like it. Pinja studies art history and is specialised in architecture, hence the text in the background (that we accidentaly stumbled on!).
I love my friends for making the effort and writing me letters. Thank you.
My cousins lovely dachshunds, Ginny and Vilja, taking a break on a warm summer day. I already miss the summer. It’s cold, windy and gray outside.
I’m off to school to develop some films from this summer. I’ll start posting pictures as soon as I get them scanned. While waiting for them, here’s a picture of Lidia and a bird lamp.
I’m back in Britain. And in school tomorrow.
The newest issue of Elevbladet, that I took some pictures for (and wrote for), is out now. Elevbladet is the magazine for the members of Finlandssvenska Skolungdomsförbund. I don’t think you can read it online, so here are the pictures I took for them. To read the book review I wrote, you have to get a hold of a copy of the mag (and understand Swedish).
Sara, editor-in-chief
Alina, chairwoman of FSS
Tiia, secretary general of FSS
Fanni & Anni, the girls living in the shopping center Forum in Helsinki. (Another version of this picture was published with the interview, but I liked this one better so I put it here).
