Author: Teemu Kuusimurto

Future Is Here

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 …

 

Soccer Mania

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 …

 

Blustery Day

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 …

 

Mr. President

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 …

 

Rainy Day

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 …

 

Following The Path

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 …

 

Black Polly Pirate Intro

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.

 

Sleeping Man 1

Sleeping Man 1

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

 

A Night In The Lake Puruvesi

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 …

 

Sleeping With Fishes

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 …

 

Ducati

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 …

 

Marie Wearing A Gas Mask

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 …

 

Debut

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 …

 

Do “Rock”

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 …

 

The Blue Moment

The Blue Moment

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

 

Wikileaks

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 …

 

Second Night Out

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 …

 

One Night

One Night

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

 

Film Star

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 …

 

Vuokko Hovatta

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 …

 

Witness The Night

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 …

 

Strange Days

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 …

 

Kill The Other Critic!

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 …

 

Kill The Critics!

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 …

 

Light Studio

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 …

 

Partying With Jenny

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 …

 

Urban Exploration

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 …

 

Moonlight

Moonlight

Last night was perfect for some moon madness.

 

Mental Case

Mental Case

I visited a modern mad house.

 

Fencing

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 …

 

A Perfect Day For a Basic Portrait

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 …

 

Lost In a Potato Field

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 …

 

Behind the Curtain

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 …

 

Black Water

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 …

 

Playing With Cookies

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 …

 

Shakespeare Is My Homeboy

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 …

 

Against Child Labour

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 …

 

Parkour

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 …

 

Poet

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. …

 

Madventures

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 …

 

Swimming Midnight

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 …

 

In the Springtime

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 …

 

Sunday Morning

Sunday Morning

 

Fight for Human Rights

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 …

 

Daydreaming In a Swamp

Daydreaming In a Swamp

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

 

Full Moon Dance

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 …

 

A misty monday afternoon

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 …

 

Bishop Matti Väisänen

Bishop Matti Väisänen

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

 

Cabin Fever

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 …

 

Laura Ready to Fly

Laura Ready to Fly

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

 

Portrait of Elisabeth Rehn

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 …

 

Anu-Elina With a Russian Winter Cap

Anu-Elina With a Russian Winter Cap

 

Self Portrait At a Misty Lake in Slovenia

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 …