"The book, 'Nine nameless mountains', is the result of a photographic road trip to the Norwegian Lofoten islands. 'MAANANTAI' (engl.: Monday) is a collektive of young photographers from Helsinki.
The story of the book 'Nine nameless mountains' began with a series of Monday meetings when the group decided to flee to the Norwegian Lofoten Islands, where the 'Nine Nameless Mountains' became its story.
Built as a contemporary Nordic fable, this project addresses the photographic genre of road trips with a mischievous attitude and curiosity about the unknown. The escaping horizon - with the mountain as a 'leitmotif' - serves as a metaphor for life and the inability to reach an absolute target.
It is a poetic and absurd topographic survey of the terms 'removal' and 'scale' - width versus height. On the way to the north, the artists play with the natural elements - rock, water, fog, sand, light - and thus create a collection of materials to celebrate the friendship, photography and chance."
(freely adapted from publisher's text, © Kehrer Verlag, 2013)
“There was a lot to learn from each other, but at first we just wanted to spent time together, exchange ideas, share stories, have fun... and go.”
Just as the surrealists started in fun, MAANANTAI's 'cadavre exquis'
was based on a spontaneous wish for amusement and being surprised by the the action of doing together. The book follows the group experimentations, with the mountain as a 'leitmotif', the escaping horizon as a metaphor for life and
the impossibility to reach an absolute goal, it revisits the genre of the road-trip with an impish attitude and curiosity towards the unknown.
On the way North, the artists played together with natural elements -stones, waves, light, sand, clouds, to create a playfully confusing story – their motive for the celebration of friendship, photography and chance." (publisher's note, © Kehrer Verlag, 2013)
- Format
- Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued) 17 x 21 cm., 104 pp., 70 ills.(incl. 8 pp. leporello, dust jacket as poster (65 x 40 cm.)