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My strong interest in overlapping processes of economic and social transition and transformation have lead me to many places where people have experienced such turmoil recently - and are in fact still experiencing it. The former and current socialist world, so to speak, has played a central role in my professional and academic activities.

 

At the same time, the related feeling of hanging-in-the-balance, in a liminal state between a distant, troubled past and an uncertain future keeps fascinating be. I experience it strongly in Russia, Central Asia, the Balkans, Mongolia, Caucasia and Eastern Europe. The collection with the rather crude title "sovietpunk" is one result of this relationship which keeps on growing. Another is dedicated to the Tibetan community in transnational exile, finding itself in a very similar state of ongoing transience.

 

A perhaps more profane collection shows my love for rugged places found in the northern hemisphere. They have meant a lot to me since my early childhood memories of the Finnish woods and the Swiss alps and are in themselves a reason to keep on carrying a lense.

 

 

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