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Ola Kolehmainen
1964
Finland
Lives and works in Berlin.
Ola Kolehmainen studied journalism at Helsinki University and also obtained a Masters in Photography from the Helsinki University of Art and Design. He photographs the facades of buildings - both old and modern - removing any sense of purpose to turn them into a simple picture by focusing on specific architectural details or shooting from unusual angles.
Architecture is the starting point of OlaKolehmainen’s work. The artist’s wide-angle photographs show buildings whoseglass facades reflect the architecture opposite. Kolehmainen’s work plays withmirrors, tricks of the light and series of windows to both break up and createvolume. His subjects are space, colour and volume and, to photograph theseabstract subjects, he uses architecture, transforming the three-dimensionalqualities of a building into a flat surface. The original forms of the subjectsoften consist of a mirror series of basic shapes or materials.
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Ola Kolehmainen
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