PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AS PHOTOGRAPHER, FILM-MAKER AND PERFORMER
2019 - FINALIZING OF FILM MEMORIES OF DESIRE AND WORK ON NEXT FEATURE FILM
2018 - PRODUCTION OF DRAMATIC FILM, MEMORIES OF DESIRE, SCRIPT, SHOOTIING, POST-PRODUCTION
-PRESENTATION OF DOCUMENTARIES AND PLAYING OF MEMORY ROULETTE AT UNIONDOCS, BROOKLYN NEW YORK
SEMINAR ON POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING AT AALTO UNIVERSITY IN HELSINKI April
TWO DAY SHOWING OF DOCUMENTARIES AT GALLERY WORKSHOP, BERLIN, May
2017 - ON A SUMMER ISLAND IN THE GULF OF FINLAND, exhibit at Chase Manhattan Bank, Abingdon Square, New York, NY 10014
July 15 - Sept 30 2017
2016 - MUSICAL CHAIRS series (113 images) in group show Avranches cathedral, Normandy, France
- ESCAPEES FROM THE ZOO photo series and film ROUGH CUT film in two-person show at HEINO GALLERY, Helsinki
Finland
- Sale of film ROUGH CUT to HEINO FOUNDATION in Helsinki
- Prints from ESCAPEES FROM THE ZOO and OCCUPY WALL STREET included into the photographic collection at the
BIBLIOTEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE, (National Library of France), Paris, France
2015 - Slide show shown to PROFESSIONAL WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS, New York
- QUE VIVA MEXICO EN BLANCO Y NEGRO, photo exhibit, Mexico
- Performed in HOWL black-and-white film by Elina Brotherus, New York
2014 - Performed in and produced ROUGH CUT, a black-and-white 16 mm film, Paris
- Exhibit of OCCUPY WALL STREET portraits at THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS,
including two public events, Paris
- In group show at IMAGINOIR during Photo Month, Paris
- In ICP group show at MANA Contemporary, Jersey City
- WRONG FACE and FRANCESCA WOODMAN’S AUNTIES,
two films by ElinaBrotherus, in which I perform, on exhibit for two months at gb agency, Paris
2012 - Slide show shown at New York Photo group Salon
- OCCUPY WALL STREET PORTRAITS at ICP summer exhibit, Governor’s Island, NY
- Selection of photos in OCCUPY NATION by Todd Gitlin, a HARPERCOLLINS book
- Live performance at screening of FRANCESCA WOODMAN’S AUNTIES, Brooklyn
2010 - Solo show INSCAPES at Gallery Laterna Magica, Helsinki, Finland
2007 - Consulted with production of World Food Program documentary, Paris
- Article on war widows in Kosovo for womensnews e-magazine
2006 - Three TV reports on post-genocide Rwanda for UN Television and CNN
2003 - Produced the documentaries TO BE A WOMAN IN KOSOVO and FAREWELL TO
ARMS on weapons inspection in Iraq. Broadcast on Arte channel in Europe
1999 - 2002 - TV-producer at the UN Mission in Kosovo, and regular contributor to CNN
1988 - 1999 - As staff documentary producer at the United Nations made major
programs on disarmament in Iraq that were broadcast worldwide
1980 - 1987 - Independent film-maker, with grants e.g. from the Ford Foundation,
the Rockefeller Foundation, NY Council of the Arts
RECENT AWARDS:
2012 - PUFFIN FUNDATION GRANT for photography
2009 - AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION GRANT for photo and history research
in Finland
EDUCATION:
2006 - 2014 - Photo studies at VISAVISPHOTO, Paris
1981 - 1982 - Acting with Lee Strasberg, New York
1968 - MS from COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
1966 - MA from THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI in languages, political science and art history (Master's Thesis on the Writings of James Baldwin)
LANGUAGES:
English, French, Finnish, Swedish, Spanish