Respect your piers, brothers and sisters

Roughly a year back I started my first ever formal photography program at Heltech vocational institute in Helsinki. It is a two year course that is designed to prepare people with skills equivalent of two years of working experience for several (I think six) exams that are designed to prove that, you know, you actually have the skills.  I think these exams are called "competence tests" in english, but who knows... Anyhow: I have met a bunch of talented people in there and I was thinking that while I have some posts planned for this blog, I might take this vacant space and use it to show some of my fellow photographers works, both from school and from around the wide nation of Finland.


Jaakko Järvinen 
Jaakko is a very talented fellow indeed. I especially like his ability to create this kind of a weird tension to his images. You can look trough his website and here.


Victoria Alexandrova
Vika is a marvellous photographer, who has done a ton of work for stock agencies and also a whole bunch of other stuff, including her great self-portrait blog. She recently went exclusive with istockphoto. There´s a nice interview with her in here.


Toni Kilpinen
Toni is one helluva good retoucher and also a pretty darn solid photographer. Fluid lighting and perfect style. Too bad we don´t see him much at school! :D


Maria Baranova
I like Marias style when it comes to those fashion types of images and also love her original art. She also does all kinds of cool handmade accessories! And her husband made my website!  


So there you have some of my piers. There are many many more and keep in mind that I am just trying to get the hang of this blogging thing and not really feeling at home with it yet. Please visit the linked sites and also leave some feedback if you´d like.