Articles in Kamera magazine 2018


Kamera 1/2018

Border photography from the Gulf of Finland to the Arctic Ocean

Uuno Peltoniemi photographed life in the border region in the 1930s and 1940s.


Kamera 2/2018

A Finnish Tragedy

Pictures from the Finnish Civil War of 1918 served as documentaries – and ideological tools.


Kamera 3/2018

A presidential election à la America

Helge Heinonen photographed the 1964 United States presidential election.


Kamera 4-5/2018

From driver to photographer

The two female photographers of Itä-Häme were a notable exception at the time.


Kamera 6/2018

Transforming Helsinki

The newspaper photographs of Uusi Suomi depict a Helsinki in the midst of transformation.


Kamera 7/2018

Through the eyes of an ethnologist

Eino Nikkilä photographed the Finnish countryside in the 1920s–1940s.


Kamera 8/2018

Miniskirts and marijuana

There is nothing more beautiful in London in 1969 than friendship and love.


Kamera 9/2018

The news photo that does not exist

90-year-old Mauri Vuorinen photographed presidents.


Kamera 10-11/2018

Wartime excursions to the song lands of the Kalevala

Väinö Kaukonen photographed the poetry singing villages of Viena Karelia.

A boy who came to see a bus, standing on a fence in Suomussalmi in 1939.​ Photo: Uuno Peltoniemi / Picture Collections of the Finnish Heritage Agency

A boy who came to see a bus, standing on a fence in Suomussalmi in 1939. Photo: Uuno Peltoniemi / Picture Collections of the Finnish Heritage Agency (KK5575:1237)

An amphibious car in the Jyränkö stream in Heinola on 6 July 1963. The Amphicar boasted a top speed of 14 km/h in water and 100 km/h on the road. The people on board remained perfectly dry. Photo: Itä-Häme / JOKA / Finnish Heritage Agency

An amphibious car in the Jyränkö stream in Heinola on 6 July 1963. The Amphicar boasted a top speed of 14 km/h in water and 100 km/h on the road. The people on board remained perfectly dry. Photo: Itä-Häme / JOKA / Finnish Heritage Agency (JOKAIH2J04:1)