Paola Suhonen “Southern boys, southern girls”

The handmade wet plate collodion photos have been shot on a road trip in North America. The darkroom was sometimes built in the back of the car, and sometimes in a motel bathtub, or a tent. The most important feature in this technique is its
unpredictability, a feeling of a process, and the mistakes brought into the image through the process itself.

Paola Ivana Suhonen is a well-known Helsinki born designer, artist and filmmaker. Her own life have become a road-trip style art project, which we can now show to Estonian audience through her visual works. Suhonen lived in New York for two years, where she studied for a year at the New York Film Academy. In the fall of 2010, she moved to Los Angeles and studied photography at the American Film Institute.

Filming location: Hendersonville, Goodlettsville, Tennessee, USA
Production collaborator: Joel Jägerroo

Additional information: 

Director of the museum: Anneli Jalava anneli.jalava@linnamuuseum.ee 

Curator of the museum: Annika Haas annika.haas@linnamuuseum.ee

Telefon: (+372) 644 8767