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NEW GHOSTS BOOK

BIG NEWS! New Ghosts will be published as a book by S&S  🥳 🥳 

YES, we are proud to tell you we have signed a publishing contract with S&S to share our story. The book will include our artworks, but also the first decade’s journey. There will be a lot of new photos and behind-the-scenes material including texts written by both of us ✌️😃✌️   ✌️😃✌️

The book will be out in autumn 2023!

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XOXO, Aki & Astrid

Aki and Astrid Sinikoski’s photo series New Ghosts portrays the relationship between father and daughter and their attempts to understand life, change, and the passage of time.  

Father and daughter have planned and made the photo series together as an artist duo since 2011. It will be published as a whole in 2058 when Aki turns 80 and Astrid is 50.

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NEW GHOSTS x OTOS/22

Hi there!

New Ghosts is part of the Photographic art sales event OTOS/22 organized by the Finnish Association of Photographic Artists. The exhibition will take place at Gallery Maamusta in Helsinki from 10–20 November 2022.

OTOS/22 is the first time we have participated in these exhibitions because our photos have always been exhibited elsewhere. So if you want to buy one of our works for your collection, this is a perfect time. 😉

Remember that there is only a limited selection from us in this event, so if you want to buy any other works by us, drop us a message, and we will help you with that.

Peace & Love, Aki & Astrid

AFTER 20 EXHIBITIONS…

👋 Time to take a deep breath 👀 🌊 😉😃 Any other New Ghosts summer plans? 🌴

🌍 After more than 20 exhibitions worldwide, it’s now time to relax, swim & play street basketball. 🏀

🥳 The last few days, we have used our time wisely by listening to a lot of 90/00 hip-hop & fresh afrobeat tunes. 😍

Next week Aki travels to Arles 🇫🇷 to show some of our new works to curators all around the world. In the meantime, Astrid will take our ghosts to confirmation camp 👻⭐️ -Time to get them baptized! 😉

👉 In the autumn, we are dropping some big news for you. 

Take care. You are important! ❤️🙏⭐️

Aki & Astrid

TURKU KUNSTHALLE TURUN TAIDEHALLI

AKI & ASTRID SINIKOSKI: NEW GHOSTS 
TURKU KUNSTHALLE / TURUN TAIDEHALLI 11.6–11.7.2021

New Ghosts at Turku Kunsthalle is open until 11 July 2021. Please, notice that if you are living in Finland you only have two weeks before it’s our time to say goodbye to Finland. 

New Ghosts photos have now been exhibited in Helsinki, Turku, Oulu, Tampere, Jyväskylä, and Inari – so now we are heading back on the road for exhibitions abroad. More news soon. 😊

Take care ❤️⭐️🙏

Aki & Astrid

ENDLESS SUMMER BOOK

Aki-Pekka Sinikoski: Last Machos

Aki-Pekka Sinikoski: Last Machos

Selfie + my just released book. –O’boy that is definitely a true 2 in 1 wonder!!!
During the last summer I worked as a guest artist at KulttuuriKauppila to arrange my Endless Summer exhibition in Ii. Now KulttuuriKauppila has published a small photo book (68 pages) of my works. I have planned to take a beautiful photo of the book to promote it here but the last weeks I have been too busy with this triangle of photo shootings, meetings, and a place called Photoshop. So, the beautiful, glossy photos of my book are coming later; first we go with this 2 in 1 snapshot wonder.
Here is a deal for you. No matter if you work with events, magazines, zines, museums, galleries, art blogs or other “culture things” I want to give you a copy of this small book of mine. Limited stock. First come, first served. So do yourself a favour and let your fingers guide you to the address sinikoski.com. Click “Contact” and drop me a message why you should get a free copy of this book and I will get back to you. smile emoticon

Peace & Love, Peki

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MJ – ARTIST STATEMENT

MJ by Aki-Pekka Sinikoski

MJ by Aki-Pekka Sinikoski

Who am I? The photograph suggests me an identity – permanent and almost everlasting. But I’m more than that.

I’m inhabited by several identities that switch around, change, and refuse to take a permanent form. I’m different at every moment. The light knows none of us. It can’t tell me who I am. The light hits the surface and exposes only what is visible.

As a photographer I am interested in the surface, identity and change. I have been shooting a series of documentary images of a Finnish young man who has dressed as Michael Jackson for the last four years. Every day. I believe that my series deals with finding one’s own identity and the courage to follow one’s own path. At the same time the images pose the question of how much can we know about a person based only on their outward appearance.

Michael-Jan is not Michael Jackson. The outward identity that seems familiar to everybody sets him apart from the crowd, but at the same time it hides the person inside.

The boundaries of reality are blurred in the grocery store when a Finnish housewife starts to blame Michael-Jan for things related to the life of the pop icon, deceased in 2009. The lady looks at Michael but does not see him. She sees only the reflecting surface which resembles someone else. All of a sudden Michael-Jan is invisible.

Who do people see when they look at me? Who do they see in my images?