Laura Konttinen

Laura Konttinen discovered that a stay in a European city changed her from an artist into a tourist. It is difficult to break away from the conventions of the snapshot. “The critical approach gets lost, and time and again I made the same generic images.” Once back home she recovered her artistic freedom again by approaching her pictures conceptually – each of her CITYSCAPES is comprised of 36 images (a full roll) that she has laid over one another digitally. It is a further generalisation of the already general, and a combination of the boring, in order to arrive at a new and intriguing image.