book uploaded

I have uploaded my book to lulu.com and orderded a copy.
Here is a link,

http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?search_forum=-1&search_cat=-1&show_results=topics&return_chars=200&search_keywords=&keys=&fSearch=ahoheikki&fSearchFamily=0&fSubmitSearch.x=0&fSubmitSearch.y=0

Creative Commons

I have chosen the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5
License. Others are allowed to Share - to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work.

Under these conditions (copied and pasted from creativecommons.org)

Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
Noncommercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
No Derivative Works: You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

Update

I have finished all my images and the short essay today. I will try to upload the book tomorrow and then wait for the spine measurement. I dont know how long it will take to print and deliver it but hopefully its going to be on the class next week.

michael wolf

Here is some images that I found few weeks ago. Photographs of chinese buildings relevant to mine.
http://photomichaelwolf.com/intro/index.html

I added some more research that I did earlier but only uploading this now. I wasn't sure what was suppose to be in the project analysis so kept the research on me instead of publishing it. Here is some more.

There is also series of pictures in Michael Wolf's website about Hong Kong Corner Houses and Hong Kong Night that are relevant to mine. I find his subjects common and uncommon at the same time. Some of the photographs show the architecture of the buildings as well documentation of the city. He has also gone inside the oldest public houses and photographed the residents who live in small rooms without windows to outside world (see pic 1). I find those pictures very interesting and they evoke me a certain feeling of sadness when I think about the people and their lives. After been in Shanghai and seen the contradiction between the city that was built for business/tourism and more traditional China I can see through some of the buildings while looking at Wolf's photographs. I am going back to china in three weeks and hopefully have a chance to look at and photograph the public houses. I will also try and visit some of the smaller cities that have not been strated rebuilding for international businesses.

This next quote is from an essay that was written by Kenneth Baker, I downloaded it from Michael Wolf's website.
"Some of Wolf’s photographs of the new Hong Kong high-rises look as if he took them
while parachuting down among the buildings. The vertical facades, running edge-to-edge
in several pictures, look almost like filmstrips laid edge to edge on an editing table.

Wolf's work expresses fascination not merely with the immensity and constraining design
of Hong Kong's recent high-rise housing but with the leakage of individuality through
these stultifying facades. A close look at any one of Wolf's architectural pictures
discovers distinctions — in window coverings, in laundry flapping like flags of personal
identity, in makeshift exterior storage —.that wink out from the apparently identical
apartments."

Shanghai Taxi

My book will contain series of photographs that has been taken in Shanghai in three weeks period and all the images have also been shot from a taxi. I started writing a short essay that I am planning to put in the book.

The first time I heard she was planning to go to China
I immediately thought about going there. I like to
visit places where I know I already have accommodation
and someone to take me further than where most
tourists go. A year after I received the email I was
sitting in a taxi on my way to explore the city I was
completely unfamiliar with. The first trip from the
airport towards the place where I was to spend the
next three weeks was so amazing that I wanted to stay
in the cab and feel the city. The buildings that
filled Shanghai never seemed to end. This hour long
journey and the feeling it gave me has remained in my
mind ever since.

The next morning when I left my room I took a taxi and
began photographing what I saw. I realized that I
wanted to capture the buildings and found myself
leaving everything else aside. Of course, I
photographed other places as well but every time I
rode in a taxi I was very keen to see the buildings
and kept photographing more.
The journeys were often long and I couldn't
communicate with the driver so taking photographs was
a good way to enjoy the ride. Long journeys on the
highway can sometimes get boring but I preferred this
to driving in the suburbs. After some days of
traveling I began to remember the buildings I had
photographed and started to make mental notes of what
I wanted to see again.

I'd never taken a taxi just for the purpose of taking
photographs but the majority of these images are based
on two routes that I knew. I used these routes pretty
often however the pictures were never planned. They
are taken on journeys there and back which explains
the night shots on the way back to my place.

Each day when i left my room i took a different lens
with me and had no plan of where i was going. This is
why some of the pictures are wide angle and others are
standard length.

The sky in Shanghai looked gray because of the amount
of pollution meaning that the sun was very hard to
see. I managed to catch it once in the morning where
sunlight is reflecting from the top of a house. People
are drying their clothes on an electric wire; this
picture captures the atmosphere of morning.

Photo publishing/ photo sharing communities

Photo publishing has been used in communication and information since it first appeared in the 19 th Century. It is a powerful source of information which has been challenged by the appearance of digital technology.
Photography of the 21st century differs a lot form the earl 20th century, when it still was seen as the representation of the real. Images that were published in newspapers and magazines had a different meaning for how they are seen in contemporary world.

The arrival of digital technology has made everyone a potential photographer and at the same time internet has made everyone a potential publisher. Digital technology has broken the boundaries between these two centuries and it has not only challenged the way of representation but also the way of thinking and how photography is viewed. Photo publishing in digital form and internet has diminished the value of printed work. Authenticity of a photograph becomes unclear with digital manipulation when everyone who can use a computer can change the content of an image.


Photo sharing communities

Im writing about photo sharing communities in relation to my own participation to it. I have been taking photographs and video with my mobile phone almost two years. I have around 300 videos and 100 photographs. Some of them can be viewed in internet but only in a 'private' blog which was created by someone who I know. There is 25 registered users and 1310 posted articles.












































I have also done short films using the clips I have taken. One example is where i have put 18 videos together when Im using a toilet in different parties, bars and nightclubs around London, Finland and Shanghai. The idea behind it comes from the fact that it has to be done in all those places. Each clip has the same purpose of making me feel better. There is no such thing that using a different toilet would make you feel better/ worse or to give you an experience that other one didn't. We don't think about that short visit after we have done it, not that we should think about, but it is simply a collection of videos from places where I have been.