The pictures in this book are from her first photograpy project. During her time as a photography student in Stockholm she traveled to Brooklyn to visit her grandmother Anna and to tell the story about Finntown, a part of Brooklyn that in those days were inhabited by finnish imigrants. In the weekends she visited Coney Island, photographing people swimming, adolescents roamimg the beach and familys on picnic.
”Life and taking photographs were pleasurable, simple and unpretentious. This book is a tribute to all the people I met, and to that which was, which never will be again.
Remember.”
Nina Korhonen was born 1961 in Tampere, Finland. Since 1981 she lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work has been exhibited since 1990 and she is recipient of several awards. Her book ”Anna Amerikan mummu” won the Swedish Photobook Prize 2004.
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