Award-winning photographer Hannes Heikura has been my idol for ages. His honest way of seeing and capturing the moment has always been impressive – you could be at his side and not see what he saw. This lone wolf also chose very stubbornly the pictures he wanted to get published which certainly did not always please his employer, Finland´s biggest daily newspaper.
Since spring 2010 Hannes Heikura has been a freelancer. Now he shows his first art photo exhibition in Helsinki.
Dark Zone is a collection of powerful B/W pictures, taken during a year in the streets of Helsinki. Their quality is suberb - printed photos can never have the same intensity as the real ones, mounted on aluminium. There black is blacker than black and the rays of light shine like rays of hope.
They are fine pictures, but why I was a little disappointed? Why did I see them in context to newspaper, not as works of art?
Dark Zone in Helsinki Art Museum Salomonkatu 15, 00100 Helsinki, near Kamppi metro station. Open Tue-Sun 11-19 until 4th September.
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