ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHER JUSSI TIAINEN
Jussi Tiainen is an acclaimed photographer of architecture and fine art.
His work is regularly exhibited in Finland and abroad and can be found in many
important collections. He is also a recipient of several grants.
Jussi Tiainen photograph Lucien den Arend
Tiainen
has taught architectural photography in many universities including Helsinki
School of Art and Design and Helsinki University of Technology.
Jussi
Tiainen is also a recognized publisher and editor in his field. His works include
e.g. the New Finnish Architecture (1996), Finnish Architecture
(1994-1999), Contemporary Finnish Architecture (2002), the New
Finnish Architecture (2002), Helsinki Contemporary Urban Architecture
(2004), the New Finnish Architecture Volume II (2005), Wood Architecture
in Finland (2007), Artist Spaces (2006), Concrete Architecture
in Finland (2008), Helsinki, Spaces (2009), and Human Scale
in Finnish Architecture (2011).
Tavastia ante-room photographer Jussi Tiainen
Light in Architectural Photography.
Relatio artis –seminar 26.5.2011
Architectural photographer Jussi Tiainen’s
speech Light in Architectural Photography focused on the artistic characteristics
of architectural photography. How does one change the three-dimensional into
two dimensional? How to truthfully describe the existing and still achieve a
visionary image?
The starting point is always good architecture. It is
in the hands of the photographer, in turn, to transmit the building’s atmosphere
to the viewer. The selection of perspective and vanishing point and classical
layout of the picture are the cornerstones of the process. It is also important
to find those points of view on the building that are accessible to all viewers.
The viewer can then choose to see what the photographer saw - even mentally
continue from where the photographer left and thus be able to analyze and compare
his own perception of the space with the photographer’s vision.
Porthania photographer Jussi Tiainen
Technical
implementation requires a correct tool. For Jussi Tiainen this is a view camera.
The challenge and advantage of this type of camera is that a subject is projected
upside down and left is right. A three-dimensional world is transformed into
a clearly two dimensional picture, within which the contrasts, colors and composition
of the architecture can be made visible.
Light plays an important and sometimes
decisive role in the successful implementation of the architecture of the image.
In particular in the Northern hemisphere the light offers excellent opportunities
for the photographer. In Finland, architectural photography is essentially nature
photography. The photographer has to adapt to the seasonal variations that transform
nature and bring significant changes in light intensity. Lighting conditions
also ultimately lead to the exact choice of the subject and the composition
is made only on the spot. Like a painter Jussi Tiainen captures the fleeting
moment – his photography describes what is.
Katariina Lipsanen
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Jussi Tiainen
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