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SARIAnnA METSäHUOnE | sweden
www.sarianna.com

My image, “Summer day by the pool” is a part of a larger project I the subject in a way that is characteristic to my work, in other words by
worked with during 2003-2004. This particular image I send to you is means of traditional photographs taken from an unusual angle, birds’
a digital collage. Here, some of my thoughts before I got started with eye perspective. The photographs will be taken in gothenburg, Sweden
my project, City Spaces: “The aim with City Spaces is to study urban and Helsinki, Finland with a large format camera from a crane at a height
structures and their ”spatial sequences”. Spatial sequences are made of 25-30 meters”. In July 2003 I arrive to this pool just outside Helsinki.
up of the spaces between buildings and structures. The spaces, streets, It was warm and sunny. kids were swimming, the parents sat close by
and open squares among the buildings – the urban living rooms – are not talking and drinking coffee. when my truck/crane arrives a bit later,
without meaning; in fact, they are the focal point of urban architecture. the parents get irritated and stressed due to the trucks’ exhaust fumes
People gather and meet in market places and open squares: they hear and start packing there things. I talk to them to calm them and they
the latest news and gossip, get the feel of the atmosphere, and catch stay. This is my first photograph from the heights, which I’m afraid of,
the scents lingering in the air. The idea behind City Spaces is to approach so I’m nervous. I rig my camera on the crane and go up to 25 meters.

| sUmmer dAy By The pool, 2003 phoToGrAphy
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