I thought it would be polite to start by introducing myself, just so you know who you're talking with. My name is Ida Taavitsainen, I'm 24 years old and graduated from UCA Rochester last summer. I had a fantastic three years at uni, I just wish I could have stayed there longer!
I started doing photography when I was fourteen, because my sister was into it and wanted company. As it happens, my sister never really got into it, but here I am, still trying to figure it out (so, thanks Kira!). At the moment I live in London (where I moved for the third year - highly recommended if you want to get into the art scene and keep yourself sane), where try to balance boring work that I actually get paid for and my personal artistic practice.
As I say in my little introduction on the right-hand side, I only work with film and I absolutley love - and miss - working in the darkroom. My personal projects usually revolve around my family, memories, history, collecting, the traces and objects that define us and that we leave behind when we leave this world. I have a lifelong love for fashion, but do not see myself as a fashion photographer and I love writing (which you will probably notice and suffer from) and am also very interested in the relationship between image and text.
During my three years at uni I worked on and off on a project called The Memory of My Wardrobe and that project also became my final project in the 3rd year. It's a project I started when I realized that so many of the clothes I have have belonged to someone else before me. I have garments in my wardrobe that have belonged to my mother, sisters, grand mothers, great grand mother and even great great grandmother and other family members and friends, so this project is basically a family history told through materials (the image at the top of this post is from this series - the dress belonged to my super stylish great grandmother).
I am also one third of the people behind the fashion and photography publication, Out of Fashion, that I did as a part of my final project at uni together with two other girls from my year. Hopefully the publication will soon be at the shelves of the uni, so that you can go and have a look at it!
If you want to have a look at what I've done during the past years I do have a website, it's just terribly out of date (hoping to fix that asap) and I also have a blog, but that is more a personal thing than professional, it does have pictures, but I mostly keep it to let my mom know I'm ok.
Here's some further links to my work and projects:
If you have any questions, worries or comments, feel free to drop me a line anytime. I usually reply quite quickly.
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