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Juha Tolonen joins Metaphor Images February 22, 2016

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Juha Tolonen (b. 1968, Australia) is an artist, lecturer, researcher, writer, photographer. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at Edith Cowan University in Australia and a Visiting Researcher at Aalto University in Helsinki, in the Department of Art. He currently lives and works in Lapland, Finland.

Wastelands is a journey into abandoned and transient spaces in Australia and Europe. Over a number of years Juha Tolonen travelled with a large format camera to record some of the unusual ways that buildings decline, and the more unusual ways that space is reordered.

A common practice is to transform abandoned industrial sites into modern centres of consumption. Old industrial centres often find new life as shopping centres. But family fun parks in abandoned nuclear power stations and the prospect of a European wilderness in Chernobyl reveal that landscape is never a finished project, nor what we always expect.

Large format photography has had a long association with architecture and landscape. It expands detail and corrects perspective, often recording more than we can actually see, compelling us to look longer.

It is a pleasure to welcome him to Metaphor Images.

City of Perth Photographic Commission September 18, 2012

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“Photography at its best is a time machine and it really does nail down a particular epoch for posterity”  MAX PAM

The first two City of Perth Photographic Commissions went to Max Pam and Simon Westlake, the first a social landscape brief and the second an architectural commission in the year 2009.

This year the commission grants went to Toni Wilkinson and Juha Tolonen and are showing at Council House 27 St Georges Tce Perth. Toni Wilkinson’s work Floreat 2012 focuses on young people of Perth while Juha Tolonen’s work Middle Kingdom examines the significance of Perth’s architecture.

Photo Toni Wilkinson

Photo Juha Tolonen