Tuomas Ollikainen / Sculptor

Five Years Silence

While living in Slovakia and Switzerland in years 2006-2010, I was travelling extensively around various parts of Europe. During my travels I was shooting many, many rolls of B&W films. When back in Finland, I developed the films finally in years 2010-2011. Some of the photos where displayed in an outdoor exhibition in  Slovakia in 2010.

Paul who?

A serie of photos on colour film, made in the autumn of 2007, and published in the Finnish e-zine Satyyri in early 2008. Photos touch upon the life of an artist as an outsider.

Colour photography 2006-2014

Selected colour photography made, with analog or digital cameras, in various locations around Europe.

Faith, faith: The World is a Temple

A visual travel journal, which was made with one of them damn tablets in the summer of 2018. I got one just before the summer, and I found the panorama option in its camera app while travelling around Europe. Travelling is always an intensive experience; you enter the world without knowing, what it will bring infront of you, and each day gives new insights, reflections and visions. There is something spiritual in the state of mind when you travel. That is why the texts and the name of the series. Special thanks to Alma for the patience.

Lentäjän tyttö

"The Pilot's Daughter" triptych was shot on b&w film in 2015. The setting is a public art work by a famous Finnish sculptor Kain Tapper, located at the campus of The University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu.