I have always been interested in photographing normal,
everyday life. For me the greatest challenge is to make
an interesting image of something very ordinary, almost
invisible, reflects Finnish photographer Markus Jokela.
His images are the result of coincidences and unplanned
encounters with people and places. Jokela almost never
stages his photographs. Sometimes he asks people to stop,
to freeze, but usually he just snaps one or two frames and
continues walking. Moments and Landscapes of Minor
Importance were shot in Helsinki between 2019 and 2023.
Most of them were captured within a few kilometers from
where he lives.
Jokela has won three World Press Photo awards, but
despite his proximity to global moments, his personal projects
often document everyday human life.MARKUS JOKELA (*1952, Helsinki) is a photographer who has
traveled the world to report on global news. He earned his MA in
social sciences at University of Tampere, Finland, and from 1981-93 worked as a journalist for the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper,
before becoming a photo editor at the same newspaper, and
eventually a photographer in 2001.
