Jaakko Heikkilä Silent Talks

Finnish artist Jaakko Heikkilä has long been interested in various small and minority communities around the world. In "Silent Talks" he meets people on the shores of the White Sea in Russia, in New York's Harlem neighborhood, and on the Brazilian island of Itaparica. He lives with Vlachs in little villages in Eastern Serbia. He follows Armenians from their homeland to Los Angeles and Venice, listening to the history of their family three generations after the genocide of 1915-1918. Heikkilä started his journey with Finnish-speaking minorities in northern Sweden and has finally come back to listen to the sounds of his home – the Torne River Valley, the northern border of Finland and Sweden. Jaakko Heikkilä's empathy for his subjects appears in his intimate and poetic images. They are an expression of peoples' right to live, regardless of community.

Hardcover 30 x 30 cm 128 pages 71 color illustrations English Available ISBN 978-3-86828-197-2 2011

Artist:

Jaakko Heikkilä

Editor:

Ritva Röminger-Czako

Texts:

Ritva Röminger-Czako, Andreas Vowinckel

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Awards

Selected title German Photo Book Award 2012

Selected title PDN Photo Annual 2012

Exhibitions

The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
16.03. – 27.08.2011

Stadtgalerie Kiel
16.09. – 13.11.2011

Städtische Galerie in der Kunsthalle Tallinn
05.12.2011 – 02.01.2012

Luleå Art Hall
29.01. – 26.02.2012

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