Janne Lehtinen
photographer
Janne Lehtinen (born 1970 in Karhula, Finland) is a Finnish photographer and a representative of the Helsinki School, the group of contemporary Finnish photographers associated with Aalto University (formerly the University of Art and Design Helsinki), where he graduated in 2002. His work takes an openly personal, autobiographical approach, using his own life and family as material for self-reflection. He became widely known for a series documenting attempts to fly with handmade apparatuses; the resulting book was awarded the German Photography Book Prize. Night Shift (Hatje Cantz, 2009, with texts by Ritva Röminger-Czako) is his third publication with that publisher, after Sacred Bird and The Descendants. Shot in a small Finnish city between January and December 2006, it combines night-time street scenes with portraits of his father returning from a night shift at a paper mill. He lives in Loviisa, southern Finland.[1,2]
- autobiography
- family and generations
- childhood
- night
- Finnish small-town life
Works by Janne Lehtinen
- 2009 Night Shift 112 pages, 80 photographs; texts by Ritva Röminger-Czako
- Sacred Bird Earlier Hatje Cantz publication; flight-attempts series
- The Descendants Earlier Hatje Cantz publication
Awards
- German Photography Book Prize (for the flight-attempts work/book)