Thursday, November 19, 2015
Featured Mobile Artist - Pasi Räihä
What is your name and where do you live?
PR: My name is Pasi Räihä and I live in Helsinki, Finland.
How did you get started in mobile photography? What device do you use?
PR: I bought my first iPhone in 2008 in the time when it was illegal in Finland. Well, it surely felt like that. Nokia phones were a religion in Finland those days. For me the Nokia sucked so I bought the iPhone and it really blew my mind. I almost immediately started experimenting with different types of apps, art forms and techniques. Currently I'm shooting with my third iPhone.
PR: My name is Pasi Räihä and I live in Helsinki, Finland.
How did you get started in mobile photography? What device do you use?
PR: I bought my first iPhone in 2008 in the time when it was illegal in Finland. Well, it surely felt like that. Nokia phones were a religion in Finland those days. For me the Nokia sucked so I bought the iPhone and it really blew my mind. I almost immediately started experimenting with different types of apps, art forms and techniques. Currently I'm shooting with my third iPhone.
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| Kapsit |
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| "I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything". Oscar Wilde |
Do you have a traditional photography or art background?
PR: I have always been quite artistic in my nature. I got my first plastic camera when I was 5. I started shooting my own videos early 1980's. I made music mixes and mashups in 1984.
Since then I have quite naturally grown into experimenting with different type of art forms. It hasn't always been easy. My father wanted me to become something more conservative. The school was hell, lots of bullying. I lived in Järvenpää, the town of Jean Sibelius and many famous Finnish painters had their history in the area, but still the town had the second highest youth crime numbers in Finland during those days. So I decided to grow my own way without studying. I painted graffiti, composed my own music, started a rave-party movement in a small city of Mikkeli. I found myself working for media as a radio host, producer, sound designer, journalist. At the very moment I work in an advertising agency as a creative. So I have always wanted to create my own art and now I can, more than ever before.
PR: I have always been quite artistic in my nature. I got my first plastic camera when I was 5. I started shooting my own videos early 1980's. I made music mixes and mashups in 1984.
Since then I have quite naturally grown into experimenting with different type of art forms. It hasn't always been easy. My father wanted me to become something more conservative. The school was hell, lots of bullying. I lived in Järvenpää, the town of Jean Sibelius and many famous Finnish painters had their history in the area, but still the town had the second highest youth crime numbers in Finland during those days. So I decided to grow my own way without studying. I painted graffiti, composed my own music, started a rave-party movement in a small city of Mikkeli. I found myself working for media as a radio host, producer, sound designer, journalist. At the very moment I work in an advertising agency as a creative. So I have always wanted to create my own art and now I can, more than ever before.
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| Hot Summer Night |
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| Music to watch the girls go by |
Who or what inspires you?
PR: The most inspiring thing for me are the people. I hope it doesn't sound lame. The people who are into Instagram, the people using Pinterest, the Vine-fanatics and the people I see all around me. They are full of stories that I want to collect and treasure. And of course my loving family.
PR: The most inspiring thing for me are the people. I hope it doesn't sound lame. The people who are into Instagram, the people using Pinterest, the Vine-fanatics and the people I see all around me. They are full of stories that I want to collect and treasure. And of course my loving family.
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| Drama Woman Walking |
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| Ghost of Bollywood |
There is a beautiful woman that appears in many of your photos. Are you related?
PR: She's my partner in life, my muse, mother of my child and Instagramer herself (@kaprinski). Follow her!
PR: She's my partner in life, my muse, mother of my child and Instagramer herself (@kaprinski). Follow her!
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| Kaprica |
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| Now the Light |
You feature many subjects in your Instagram gallery - street photography, painterly images, portraits. Is there a subject you prefer?
PR: They are all dear to me. Maybe one could say I prefer people and nature colliding in a magical light.
Do you have some tips for taking good candid street photos?
PR: Yes I do! There's one when Kaprinski and I are kissing but I'm shooting pics with one eye open. And other when I'm pushing my child in a stroller and everyone's looking at her instead of my phone, just to mention a few.  |
| Bloys |
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| Happy Accident with Hipstamatic Double Exposure |
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| Ohikiitävä- |
What are your favorite apps for editing?
PR: Snapseed, Mextures, Faded, Stackables, Image Blender and Repix are my favorites at the moment.
Do you edit on a phone or a tablet?
PR: 99.9% with my phone.
PR: Snapseed, Mextures, Faded, Stackables, Image Blender and Repix are my favorites at the moment.
Do you edit on a phone or a tablet?
PR: 99.9% with my phone.
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| La Mer |
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| Selfie |
Is this just a hobby or do you hope to exhibit or sell your work?
PR: I would love to have an exhibition and sell my work! Actually I have been asked many times during the years to do them both. For some reason I haven't been curious enough to make this happen...Yet.
PR: I would love to have an exhibition and sell my work! Actually I have been asked many times during the years to do them both. For some reason I haven't been curious enough to make this happen...Yet.
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| Reach |
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| Sit |
Is there anything else you'd like to add?
PR: I'd like to thank all social media services. Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook... All of them allow people to give me very important feedback. So I know what people have liked and it strives me to push even further the next time. I'm truly grateful for all of the likes and comments and I feel bad about not being able to answer them all.
PR: I'd like to thank all social media services. Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook... All of them allow people to give me very important feedback. So I know what people have liked and it strives me to push even further the next time. I'm truly grateful for all of the likes and comments and I feel bad about not being able to answer them all.
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Find Pasi: Instagram / Twitter / Facebook / Flickr/ Vimeo / Soundcloud / Linkedin / Website (coming soon)
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