Kalle Kataila

Kalle Kataila lives and works in Helsinki. He focuses on exploring the concepts of landscape and how personal narratives attribute to our understandings of these spaces. In these two photos, about 2 thirds of the photo are filled with the sky and the bottom is the land. This gives us a sense of the vastness of the world and the landscape surrounding us. The figure that you can see in the middle of the photos are put in a very specific place. They are a certain distance from the camera so that the person look small and almost insignificant. The figure within the landscape lets you have a sense of the scale of the landscape. For example, in the top picture, without the person in it you wouldn't be able to tell how vast the picture was.

I really like these photos because of how much of the picture the sky takes up but also because of the figure in the middle. It gives you a sense of being lost and shows the scale of the landscape. I also like the colouring of the photos as they are not bright and vibrant but they are dull photos which reflects the mood that you get when you see these photos.