Mapping photography around the world
On May 18th, 2013, the 6-year, international photography project Laatikkomo was set in motion.
Laatikkomo can be translated into English as “Box (gallery)”, and as its name suggests, it is located in a large, outdoor, glassed-in, box-frame in Jyväskylä, Finland. This project was inspired by Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy’s theory(1929) (later tested by American social psychologist, Stanley Milgram and published in 1978) that suggests we can all be linked to each other through six people. Laatikkomo visually tests this theory using six linkages of professional photographers.
To initiate this project, we chose six photographers from six different continents. Each photographer showed one of their own images for fourteen days, and chose another photographer to be the next to show their work. This next photographer also showed one image for 14 days, chose her/his sequential photographer, and so on. Thus forming a link-path of photographers, from one person to the next. After the initial six artists, the whole process depended on the coincidence of choice made by each subsequent artist.
After 6 years of collecting international photographers, the project was compiled into a publication and exhibited at the Nykyaika gallery in Tampere, Finland in November 2019.
www.laatikkomo.fi
On May 18th, 2013, the 6-year, international photography project Laatikkomo was set in motion.
Laatikkomo can be translated into English as “Box (gallery)”, and as its name suggests, it is located in a large, outdoor, glassed-in, box-frame in Jyväskylä, Finland. This project was inspired by Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy’s theory(1929) (later tested by American social psychologist, Stanley Milgram and published in 1978) that suggests we can all be linked to each other through six people. Laatikkomo visually tests this theory using six linkages of professional photographers.
To initiate this project, we chose six photographers from six different continents. Each photographer showed one of their own images for fourteen days, and chose another photographer to be the next to show their work. This next photographer also showed one image for 14 days, chose her/his sequential photographer, and so on. Thus forming a link-path of photographers, from one person to the next. After the initial six artists, the whole process depended on the coincidence of choice made by each subsequent artist.
After 6 years of collecting international photographers, the project was compiled into a publication and exhibited at the Nykyaika gallery in Tampere, Finland in November 2019.
www.laatikkomo.fi
