Our environment is becoming more and more disturbing. Our body is not only under threat of possible physical violence in the streets, but also distressed by the knowledge that the food we are eating might actually be dangerous, even lethal. The air we are breathing can make us sick without warning.

The task of photography is to witness, or hide, things that are not meant for the public gaze. What is not shown in a photograph does not exist. Yet our unconscious also registers things we do not wish to see. The shadow hides the unexpected, the blind spot in our eyes; we see the world the way we are accustomed to. Sometimes suspicions are awakened. Did I just see what I think I saw?
- Vuokko Isoherranen -

Nominated by Pirkko Siitari, chief curator at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.