Średnia Wieś – Polish Village 1979 – 2002.
Śtanisław Roś 1981.
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OTHER – The Balkan Tragedy
We can´t like everything we know but sometimes it is worth taking a step closer to understand why people act as they do. In the world of joy and peace there is also war and hate.
At the end of the last century (which is still relatively close) I was photographing the victims of the many wars waged on the territory of former Yugoslavia. One tragedy followed another and snowballed as if no intervention were possible. Ethnic differences gained importance initially as a means to gain or maintain power, but their significance changed in such a way as to define the entire picture of the conflicts. At the end everyone was a loser: in these wars Serbs, Croatians, Bosniaks and Kosovo Albanians alike. I have tried to catch a general view of the war by including all the conflicting parts to my pictures, exposing the human suffering on all sides.
Some pictures from the coming project “THE SEX – hidden agenda”. This a new project I am just starting to. It is about sex and its influence on us. It is not only about the sexuality but also how its hidden forms has divided the world. Even when it is a new project it will contain a lot pictures which are taken earlier. It is very much still in the process.
In the Moscow Metro in 1986.
What is small tends to be less important. Oqaatsut has only 52 inhabitants. That´s why this tiny village is going to be shown at my site a little bit later. Till then you can watch at these two pictures from Oqaatsut (Rodebay) for a longer look. So far so good. The first one is made in the backyard of Pavia Olsen who is also passing by in the picture in 1997. The other shows the Christmas tree in 1995 December.
Other – Balkanin tragedia. (näyttelyn johdanto 2000-luvun alusta). Katso kuvat PDF/englanninkielinen versio.
Eurooppaa asuttaa nyt suurelta osalta sotaa kokematon väestö. Väkivallaksi räjähtänyt Balkan pakottaa meidät opiskelemaan sotaa uutena asiana. Järjestäytynyt väkivalta on vaikeasti ymmärrettävää. Sotiin liittyvät tapahtumat ovat taustoiltaan monimutkaisia ja samalla yksinkertaisen väkivaltaisia. Yhteiskunta toimii sodassa itsensä tuottamaa moraalia vastaan. Meidän pitäisi siis osata vastustaa sotaa ja samalla hyväksyä sen aggressiivinen luonne.
Some texts of the “CHINO” -exhibition as they were in the late nineties in Jukka Male Museum in Cable Factory/Helsinki and in some other places where these pictures were also exhibited on the walls. This project is not yet finished. I am still continuing to work on it, but here some taste from the past:
CHINO
I first came to Barcelona almost six years ago. I did not encounter Catalonia or any of the nationalist passions I had anticipated. After roaming around for a while, I found an open space in the center of the city, created by the demolition of a whole quarter of buildings.
Stone pillars joined the sides of this packed dirt square to the rest of the city. It was like a small town plaza in the middle of a metropolis. It provided a good space for hanging out and for all kinds of encounters.
All the frequenters of the square were more interested in themselves, in their own livelihoods, than in the independence or coexistence of diverse cultures. The population of this part of town had been brought here by drugs, prostitution, and the most severe of crimes: poverty. I had entered Chino, the basement of society.
CHINO.
Tulin Barcelonaan ensi kerran jo vuonna 1991. En kohdannut Kataloniaa enkä ennakoimaani kansojen kiihkoa toisiaan vastaan. Lyhyen kiertelyn jälkeen löysin keskeltä kaupunkia aukion, jonka päältä oli purettu korttelillinen taloja.
Maapohjainen aukio oli sivuiltaan kivipylväin kaupunkiin kiinniommeltu. Se oli kuin pikkukaupungin tori, vaikkakin keskellä suurkaupunkia. Olemiselle se tarjosi hyvän sijan, ja kaikenlaiselle pysähtymiselle.
Aukean jokainen liikkuja oli enemmän kiinnostunut itsestään, omasta toimeentulostaan, kuin erilaisten kulttuurien itsenäisyydestä tai yhteensopivuudesta. Asuttajana tähän osaan kaupunkia olivat huumeet, prostituutio, ja rikoksista suurin – köyhyys. Olin astunut Chinoon, yhteiskunnan kellariin.
CHINO. (texten av Jukka Male, översättningen Peter Lodenius)
Jag kom första gången till Barcelona redan 1991. Jag mötte inte Katalonien, och inte heller folkgruppernas hets mot varandra. Efter en kort rundvandring fann jag mitt i stan en öppen plats där ett helt kvarter rivits ner.
Skvären med jordgrund var kantad med stenpelare och fastsydd i staden. Den var som ett småstadstorg, mitt i storstan. För varandet erbjöd den ett gott läge, och för alla möjliga avvikanden.
Var och en som rör sig på skvären är mera intresserad av sig själv och sin egen utkomst än av olika kulturers självständighet eller samhörighet. Bosättare i denhär delen av stan är droger, prostitution och det värsta brottet av alla: fattigdomen. Jag hade stigit in i Chino, samhällets källare.
Who knows what is the best photography of the world or who is the best photographer? Nobody knows.
It is on your own decision.
Take a look, maybe you find
something interesting here.
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Thank you visiting this site.
We live allmost everywhere on this planet. Every environment creates its own ethics and aesthetics but their principles are often surprisingly similar. Different societies and even highly miscellaneous circumstances from a war to a peaceful village do not prevent us from living our daily life.
Despite the huge diversity
we humans are also very much the same. One thing we all have in common is everybody´s uniqueness.
I hope with these pictures the world comes closer to your senses
and becomes maybe a bit more understandable and makes it easier
to enjoy its united uniqueness.
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Jukka Male has been supported with grants by many institutions.
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