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VISITING VÄKEVÄINEN FAMILY AS A QUEST IN 1974 Risto Vuorimies

Mikkeli Centre of Photography, Mikkeli

  • 12.10.2023–

Hellä and Sulo Väkeväinen and their son Pertti lived on the borderlands of North Karelia and Southern Savo. They farmed the land. After Sulo's death, Hellä and her son remained to continue the work. The farm ended when Pertti’s widowed wife died in a house fire and the farm was left in disrepair. This exhibition is assembled from these materials.

 

Hellä and Sulo Väkeväinen and their son Pertti lived on the borderlands of North Karelia and Southern Savo. They farmed the land. After Sulo's death, Hellä and her son remained to continue the work. The farm ended when Pertti’s widowed wife died in a house fire and the farm was left in disrepair. This exhibition is assembled from these materials.
Risto Vuorimies (b.1948, Helsinki) is a Finnish documentary photographer. Especially his works from the 1970s about the rise of Finnish rock have been widely seen. He attended Fotoskolan in Stockholm from 1970 to 1972, and together with photographer Ben Kaila brought to Finland the photo exhibition Siirtosuomalainen (Finnish Immigrants) about Swedish Finns. Risto Vuorimies’ photo book about the early years of the band Hurriganes will be published in autumn 2023.

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