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Sari Vennola
b. 14.3.1965 Helsingissä
Johan Bockin kuja 6 F 56
00720 Helsinki
Tel. 040 55 99 168
E-mail
personal.inet.fi/taide/sari.vennola
CV Sari Vennola
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People and Traces
I have taken many pictures of my mother and I have reflected on how hard it is to grow old in our culture that worships beauty and youth.
The starting point of my work "Traces of life" is my mother`s sentence "my scars are my most beautiful jewellery". I have photographed traces that passing time leaves on human. All events in life, joys and sorrows change us. Life we live and our choises make us what we vill became as a human being. In my opinion a person should carry his traces of life like jewellery, because scars, inside and visible, are the jewellery of soul.
My models come in all ages and sizes and each have their individualities. Very often, and it`s a shame they forget that they are beautiful as they are. All women are photographed naked, but I don't considere my images to be actual nude pictures or nude stydies. It is important that the traces of skin are shown. Side by side these black and white portraits are photographs of old jewellery.
I am interested in people and that change what happens to every one of us. I think we are very must trying to forget that every day we became a day older and our bodies change a little bit. Somehow our personality stays guit same allthougt our appearance change. We have to give up the past and grow to something new. Often we take an attitude that old people are almoust invisible.
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