Finland Local markets

One of the things most people ask me is “how do you find something interesting to shoot while traveling?”
Well in all honestly I always ask the people who know… sounds quite logical right? and it is.

 

When we travel I always ask our client if he/she knows anyone that wants to show us around to places that are not “touristy” and in most cases there is always someone who is willing to do this, this is actually the best way to do it, posting on social media also helps of course.

 

But what if you don’t have any contacts?
Well with internet that’s almost impossible of course but let’s say indeed you don’t (although I wonder how you read this post if you don’t have internet), the best way to find interesting spots/people to shoot are for me always train stations (or metro) and local markets. These places are filled with people and often they are in a hurry so you can shoot without being noticed, on the markets it’s always wise to ask people if you can shoot of course, especially if they are holding big knives 😀

 

Vilhelm Sjöström took us to the local market in Helsinki to shoot some images, and today you can find these images in the blog.

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Finland graffiti

Today some images I took during the tour with local Helsinki photographer Vilhelm Sjöström.
We were very lucky with our tour guides (as mentioned before) because somehow they know exactly what we wanted to see 😀

 

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Finland abandoned

Another thing I love to visit while traveling are abandoned buildings, the structure, (often) graffiti, and the whole mood of these places are often just awesome to shoot. So we were delighted when we passed these buildings and were able to walk around and take some quick shots.

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Finland ice swimming

One of the things I love to do when traveling is seeing the things that normally the tourist doesn’t see, so we always place a call on social media and hope to find a local photographer that is willing to show us around and take us places we would otherwise never see…. and we were not disappointed this trip, I think we had three of the best tour guides available.

 

In Tampere we were shown around by Matti, a well known Finnish photographer and teacher.
One of things I love to see are people in not everyday situations for us… so according to Matti I had to see ice swimming.
Now imagine us on the shore in thick clothing (several layers), wearing gloves and seeing people in only their swimming trousers and a hat (very important) going to the water (which is all frozen over) to take a little swim after which they will just sit outside and enjoy the weather or go in into the sauna.

 

I asked if I was allowed to take some images and, probably because this seems to be very common in Finland, it was no problem, so today I present a small series I took on Ice swimming.

 

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