JUICY

This is my very own Biggie Smalls post. A post that I’m forced to start with a bit of twisted quote: “It was all a dream. I used to read Photo Raw magazine… ”

Photo Raw magazine has a clear vision. It’s exploring photography from all around the world: documentary, photojournalism and art. It wants to be a voice of all photographers and show the most interesting photo projects from all over. During the last four years it has become the magazine that propably all the professional photographers and photo lovers are subscribing here in Finland. Besides that the magazine has a growing fan base all over the globe.

During all these years Photo Raw has shown me amazingly great photos and mind blowing projects. Many times that damn magazine has made me almost frustrated. “How the heck can all these people take so much better pictures than me?”

You can just imagine how I felt when the Photo Raw contacted me to make a cover story of my Finnish Teens photo series. They wanted to publish a photo by me as the cover and to publish a 29 pictures portfolio of my pictures!!!

So, do yourself a favor and let your feet guide you to the closest magazine stand to buy The Juicy Photo Raw #15.

More information: www.photoraw.org

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SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT

Helsingin Sanomat wasn’t the only newspaper that has been writing about the Finnish Teens exhibition. Actually it looks like there has been articles and news about it all over the country. At least Hufvudstadsbladet, Turun Sanomat, Keskipohjanmaa, Hämeen Sanomat, Kaleva, Ilkka, Pohjalainen, Demari, Savon Sanomat, Karjalainen, Kotivinkki, and Ylioppilaslehti has published an article about the exhibition. Besides that there has been news about the exhibition in many web magazines and blogs like YLE, Suosikki, Nelonen, City, Finnguide, Luksusblog, Sateenkaarimaalari and This is Finland.

If you have noticed any stories pulished in any other media than mentioned above it would be great if you could drop me an email about it.

Cheers, Peki

Aki-Pekka Sinikoski: Finnish Teens

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SINIKOSKI + RADIO x 2

Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE’s Radio1 has one of my favorite radio programs called Kultakuume. It’s a superb culture program and I got the honour to be interviewed for it by Kai Ristola. You can listen the interview HERE

Also the small nice underground radio called Lähiradio asked me to visit their culture program Aspe & Co. So if you want to listen to almost 45 minutes of me speaking, you can find the clip HERE. But I have to warn you, That’s a lot of speaking – but with some good tunes included as well.

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BEAUTIFUL EVENING!

Thanks to all the opening guests who made their way to my exhibition opening through the autumn storm. It was really fun to see that also the Finnish Minister of Culture and Sport, Paavo Arhinmäki honored the opening at the Finnish Museum of Photography. –What a beautiful evening!

If you didn’t have a chance to visit the opening, don’t worry, the exhibition is still open until October 16th 2011.

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FINNISH TEENS + HELSINGIN SANOMAT

Good news! Finnish Teens exhibition hasn’t even started yet and Helsingin Sanomat (the largest subscription newspaper in Nordic countries) already made a half page article of it in their Sunday section. So if you missed the yesterday’s news you might find a treasure in your closest paper recycle bin.

Oh boy! You do not want to get your hands dirty? Yes I knew it, and you are not too enthusiasted to dig your neighbours trashes either. That’s why I scanned the arcticle. You can find it HERE.

All the best, Peki

 

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BOB THE BUILDER… OR SOMETHING

 

 

Hi Folks! After more than two years of photo shootings, I’m finally here in the Finnish Museum of Photography. It has been a long but enjoyable road and I’m definitely happy that I started it. I want to thank all the teenagers I have had the chance to meet and photograph during this photo project.

And now after two days of hard work most of the photos are already up on the walls and I feel like Bob the Builder.

But to be honest I have mostly only been Peki the Photographer. The real Bob the Builder has been Heikki from from the museum’s staff, who has helped me a lot with the practical details with constructing the exhibition. Today he even surprised me with this fancy name sign on the wall. Personally I was thinking about something a bit smaller but what the heck. If I get this big sign for my exhibition from museum – a big one it will be. And the good thing with this is, that if some of you will not like the pictures in my exhibition I bet you will at least love the huge sign. Heh hee!

Still two days to go and millions of details to fix, but I promise you that everything will be ready by Tuesday’s opening.

Cheers, Peki

Aki-Pekka Sinikoski: Finnish Teens

Aki-Pekka Sinikoski: Finnish Teens

Aki-Pekka Sinikoski: Finnish Teens

Aki-Pekka Sinikoski: Finnish Teens

Aki-Pekka Sinikoski: Finnish Teens

 

 

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AUTUMN IS HERE…

 

Autumn is here… YEP, but don’t be too horrified because the good news is that there is only one week left before the Finnish Teens’ exhibition opening. It’s going to be the BIG one, so if you are alive and in Helsinki – do not miss the opening at Finnish Museum of Photography, September 13th at 5–7 pm. Exhibition will be open until October 16th. For more information, please check: http://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en

And just to make sure, our life here in the palace of Korea is not just art: We are happy to tell you that Peki has once again worked on plenty of great commercial projects as well. Besides that we can tell you that he has got flattering feedback from both his old and new clients. We will give you more information on these projects in the near future on Korea’s Blog but at this point we will leave you with the quote from one of our new clients. Like many of Korea’s friends the photo editor of the legendary German Stern Magazin seems to appreciate both the style and quality of Peki’s work. “Excellent picture, congratulation! — I’m really satisfied with your work.”

Jepulis, autumn is here but that’s not such a bad thing after all.

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KOREA x FELLOWLAND

There is a new creative office in town. Five highly talented guys (background in Valve, Las Palmas etc.) have just started Fellowland, a creative office. They contacted Korea’s finest Peki Sinikoski to make photos for their promotion and communication needs. They wanted to have photos full of action and testosterone. Their idea was to have photos that would be kind of iconic but also self-ironic. One of their thoughts was photos that shows them as a tight group – almost like a band.

Peki started to create a photo concept based on these ideas. The result was some mind-blowing photos showing a mysterious special unit arriving from the middle of the sea carrying a chair, desk and other office equipment with them to ground their office in the middle of the wilderness. The concept included the ideas listed by the guys from Fellowland, but with some extra flavors added on the top of the cake. Photos also played fantastically with the idea of the so called mobile office with kind of crazy twist of sisu (Finnish term loosely translated into English as strength of will, determination, perseverance, and acting rationally in the face of adversity).

The guys really liked the idea and they simply loved the final images. The whole thing was shot in the Finnish archipelago in the early spring and guys were forced to stay long periods in the 6°C cold water. “In the photos we wanted to use old cool looking dry suits. They looked super nice but unfortunately they leaked cold water inside. So half of the whole day photo session guys were swimming in the ice cold water and the rest of the session they were carrying heavy desk over the rocks and hills. I can promise you that if these guys are ready to give that much effort for their clients as they did on shooting that day, they are going to have a bright future”, laughed Peki afterward.

Rumours tell that also Mr. Sinikoski himself was standing in the middle of sea wearing only his undies, beanie and digital Hasselblad. Sometimes that’s exactly what it takes to find the perfect angle for the photos.

More pictures HERE

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PEKI IN PRESS

Helsingin Sanomat, the largest subscription newspaper in Nordic countries has a weekly magazine called Nyt-liite. In today’s issue Peki’s photos of Finnish Teens has been pointed out as a gem of MoA 2011 exhibition. We totally agree and want to remind you that if you did miss this exhibition, make sure to see his forthcoming exhibition in the Finnish Museum of Photography in September.

Arttu Magazine made an interview with Peki. You can find the scanned version of that one HERE. Text is written in Finnish by Tommi Laitio, including an English resume.

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