Jaakko Kahilaniemi / 100 Hectares of Understanding

Finland is one of the most forested countries in the world. Almost 75 percent of the country is covered by forests – that’s over 26 million hectares of which Jaakko Kahilaniemi owns 100 hectares. His conceptual project 100 Hectares of Understanding is his attempt to understand the forest area he inherited: “Throughout adulthood my relationship with the forest has been somewhat discordant and attitude towards my inheritance has been indifferent. I study what nature has to offer to urbanized people and I will try to create new ways of thinking and ways to experience and feel the forest. I capture nature through my lens before applying the alchemical process that makes art out of the familiar.” - Jaakko Kahilaniemi.

Published by Kehrer

96 pages
22 x 26 cm
English
2021