Women From Finland And Mozambique

magi viljanen Africa Women Africa Women is a photographic series portraying women in Mozambique. The works combine elements of classical and contemporary photography by joining portraits of women with images of African textiles known as capulanas. The series reflects the shared humanity of women across cultures while presenting everyday life in Mozambique from a realistic […]

Five Little Devils

magi viljanen Five Little Devils Inspired by a poem by Hellaakoski, one summer night my friends and I surrendered ourselves to a world of play and fable. Each of us assumed a role – devil or angel. I dug out some old rolls of infrared film and photographed through the night until dawn. Later, the […]

Circus Bombay

WHAT: PORTFOLIO and PHOTO EXHIBITION   WHERE: HELSINKI, FINLAND   WHEN: 1996 Circus Bombay   Pictures taken in Ahmenabad India in 1995. Group exhibition “Enter” in Taidehalli, Helsinki, 1996.       Bombay Circus is a portfolio of photographs. Both the canvas covers and the paper inside are handmade in India. The portfolio includes 8 […]

Women From Finland And Mozambique

WHAT: PHOTO EXHIBITION AND BOOK   WHERE: MOZAMBIQUE   WHEN: 2005 Africa Women Africa Women is a seria of photographs of african women shot in Mozambique. Pictures combine classical and modern photography by joining portraits of women to images of african fabrics – kabulans. Works express the similarity of all women in spite of the […]

Prince No. 627 G 382 N

WHAT: PHOTO EXHIBITION AND BOOK   WHERE: FINLAND, JAPANESE, RUSSIAN, MOZAMBIQUE   WHEN: 1997 Prince Number 627 G 382 N The photographs in Prince Number 627 G 382 N are taken in four mental hospital in different parts of the world: Finland, Mosambik, Japan and Russia. I took each of the four hospitals as an […]

Garden No. 12

WHAT: PHOTO EXHIBITION AND BOOK   WHERE: KELLOKOSKI, FINLAND   WHEN: 1995 Puutarha number 12 An exhibition of photographs of patients of Kellokoski mental hospital. The exhibition was ordered by the Kellokoski mental hospital in Fall 1994, and the photographs were taken in the following winter when I spent  long periods in the hospital. After […]