Paula Tella - Photographs
21.10. – 8.11.2009

Press Release

SCRATCH

These works were taken by camera obscura, a camera, which I made out of cardboard boxes. The negatives were developed in the darkroom and exposed of a long time.

The personal need for slowness and the yearning for nature influenced on my choosing the camera obscura method. Camera obscura method also allows connecting the low tech and the slow tech, which is important to me, without any technology groan.

I also was attracted by the idea of working “blindly” – to set the camera obscura box somewhere on the landscape, let the box photograph while the “photographer” sits beside and gives a chance to the box. At the same time nature gets the chance, too.

The camera obscura method, the marks and scratches it leaves and the long exposure are drawing visible something that otherwise were not noticeable to the eye.

The images were taken in various places in Finland in 2009.

Paula Tella