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22 Dec

Future Is Here

This is Janne Kaijärvi, a journalist who paints a dark future for media and journalists if they aren’t ready to change their ways of doing …

21 Dec

Soccer Mania

This is for a worldwide ad campaign I took for a hotel company. Idea of the campaign was that there were one photo of selected …

20 Dec

Blustery Day

This is Irene Mikaela, a Finnish fashion designer. I photographer her and two other designers on the roof of Cable factory in Helsinki. As usual, anything …

16 Dec

Mr. President

This is president candidate Paavo Väyrynen. He has been in Finland’s parliament over 30 years, from year 1970. This year he didn’t make it, so …

15 Dec

Rainy Day

This is Markku Koli, a former lieutenant general of the army of Finland. For some reason he resigned and took a job in the military …

07 Oct

Following The Path

Long time no posting. This is musician Tuure Kilpeläinen in Suomenlinna fortress island. I like the photo because it looks more like a landscape than a …

29 Jul

Black Polly Pirate Intro

I made this intro for our RC-Groups road trip’s video. Let’s see if I ever complete the video.

19 Jul

Sleeping Man 1

Yep, it’s a sleeping nurse. I took this a while ago for a story about uniforms.

19 Jun

A Night In The Lake Puruvesi

The facts I learned this time: 1) There are also fish in lakes. 2) The fish in the lakes like to swim also at nights. The time lapse …

03 Jun

Sleeping With Fishes

This is underwater time lapse from the Baltic Sea. I am building my own time lapse dolly and with the video fewer I just had to …

12 May

Ducati

I took this photo few weeks ago while shooting a portrait of the lady riding the bike. I don’t know if they ever published this …

28 Apr

Marie Wearing A Gas Mask

I just updated my website. Check it out from www.teemukuusimurto.com. This photo I took yesterday. Marie was interviewing a lady I photographed and we had an …

22 Mar

Debut

This is my debut in the world of clothes. I photographed a collection for Tauko, who design and manufacture clothing from recycled materials. Check them …

21 Mar

Do “Rock”

This is Finnish metal star Jouni Hynynen from the band called Kotiteollisuus. The magazine had asked something “rock”, but the restaurant they interviewed looked like every …

09 Mar

The Blue Moment

This is graphic designer Lotta Nieminen for a magazine for graphic designers.

25 Feb

Wikileaks

This is my five cents to the Wikileaks case. The photo was taken for a local magazine for journalists. The guy in the photo is …

24 Feb

Second Night Out

I was staying a night at my friend’s summer cottage and tried out my new time lapse platform. Too bad that night there was -32 …

03 Feb

One Night

One night when the sea was breathing I was standing in the shore of the island of Utö in the Baltic Sea.

02 Jan

Film Star

I took this with my old iPhone. It’s unbelievable what those camera apps can do, no post processing at all! Anssi Vanjoki from Nokia claimed …

22 Nov

Vuokko Hovatta

This is a Finnish actor and singer Vuokko Hovatta. The photo was taken for a magazine, but as the focus group is little bit older …

29 Oct

Witness The Night

Yesterday I was photographing Lady Kishwar Desai. She is an Indian writer who tells about hospitals where never borns a girl, a town where only …

27 Oct

Strange Days

This is the next cover for the Shaker magazine. I wanted to take a cover, which would be more like a scenery than a cover with …

03 Oct

Kill The Other Critic!

This is the inside photo of Veli-Pekka Leppänen. I posted the cover shot two days ago. Story remains the same, check it out from the …

01 Oct

Kill The Critics!

This is critic Veli-Pekka Leppänen. He wrote a critic of a book for the local newspaper in Helsinki and got ripped by the most trendy …

30 Sep

Light Studio

Today our own iPhone application is finally ready! It’s made for all of you who would like to improve your lighting skills and take even …

20 Sep

Partying With Jenny

This time my cover shoot for the Shaker-magazine included some hard partying and beautiful people. After trying to illuminate the Jenny Woo-bar with my studio lights …

14 Sep

Urban Exploration

I had a perfect assignment this summer: I got to shoot some Urban Exploration in an abandoned factory for a local newspaper. Before this I …

23 Aug

Moonlight

Last night was perfect for some moon madness.

23 Aug

Mental Case

I visited a modern mad house.

12 Aug

Fencing

The first thought after I got this assignment was about my friend and colleague Taavetti Alin, who had taken a great shot of two swordsmen …

10 Aug

A Perfect Day For a Basic Portrait

Today was my first day at work after summer holiday. I had planned sitting in the office and filling up some papers or something, just …

17 Jul

Lost In a Potato Field

We are having our vacation in Ostrobotnia and got little lost in a potato field. This photo is taken with iphone from the viewfinder of …

14 Jul

Behind the Curtain

This is Christopher Wangel from Football Association of Finland. The paper asked me to take a different kind of football related photo than the one which …

06 Jul

Black Water

This is a promo of dancer Jorma Uotinen’s dance performance Black Water for the local newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. I had really fun time shooting this …

22 Jun

Playing With Cookies

I couldn’t sleep so I decided to make a series of a night time activity in my head. This isn’t from it yet, just a …

20 Jun

Shakespeare Is My Homeboy

Last wednesday I was in a high security prison taking photos of Juha Heinonen and Jere Nieminen who wrote plays. I have a lot of different …

11 Jun

Against Child Labour

This is Jukka Pääkkönen, who works for Solidary Center in Finland. The story is about child labour, that’s why he has a football. About the …

18 May

Parkour

This was the first time I shot parkour. I had already visioned the photo in my head (about five years ago) and when I saw …

10 May

Poet

This is poet Kai Nieminen. He lives with his wife in a middle of a forest in an old school building making tea and poems. …

04 May

Madventures

These are Riku and Tunna from Madventures, the only travelling show worth to watch if you don’t plan a family holiday. The reason this photo is …

25 Apr

Swimming Midnight

Sami promised to go to swimming from Sauna in the evening, so I put up some lights for about three hours to get ready for …

23 Apr

In the Springtime

We came to start the spring at Marie’s summer cottage. Sea is still covered with ice and here are no viper snakes yet. Little cold …

18 Apr

Sunday Morning

13 Apr

Fight for Human Rights

This is a portrait for Amnesty International of a human rights activist Juanda Djamal from Aceh. He came to Finland to talk about things like …

11 Apr

Daydreaming In a Swamp

This morning was beautiful so we desided to have a little adventure.

04 Apr

Full Moon Dance

We went road tripping to Hämeenlinna to have some fun and to take some light painting photos over old castle ruins over there. I didn’t …

29 Mar

A misty monday afternoon

Today I was playing hookey with Mika instead of doing my obligations with Photoshop. Snow is starting to melt so there is misty everywhere. Add …

26 Mar

Bishop Matti Väisänen

This is an assignment for a magazine to photograph Matti Väisänen, the most conservative bishop in Finland.

20 Mar

Cabin Fever

I was at Laura’s cabin for a week playing croquette in the snow and making circles to the sky with my illuminated RC-plane. And by …

14 Mar

Laura Ready to Fly

Laura is ready to be dragged in a sled behind the car. And boy was that fun!

07 Mar

Portrait of Elisabeth Rehn

This was an assignment for a Finnish magazine to take a portrait of Elisabeth Rehn, who was elected to the Board of Directors of the …

01 Mar

Anu-Elina With a Russian Winter Cap

25 Feb

Self Portrait At a Misty Lake in Slovenia

This is the first post for this blog. From now on I will fill up this place with random photos when ever I get a …