Brats (Silkohapset) is a long term documentary project of children in the suburbs of Vaajakoski. I’m photographing them so that they have a memory of themselves when they reach adulthood.
The themes of this exhibition are childhood surroundings and its influence on adulthood as well as children’s surprising ability to use imagination in their play.
These pictures reflect my childhood experiences and the way I experienced the world back then and still do. This project is fully completed when the children in the pictures have grown up, and I can hand them a book about this project
Niina Vehmaa (born 1983, Jyväskylä) is a photographic artist based in Vaajakoski. She also creates animation, digital art as well as designs for clothing from her works of photography. Her work has been exhibited in group and private exhibitions in Finland and abroad. The intense and rebellious way to take photographs, experience and express issues is repeated through out Niina’s work.
