Tricks and technicks: the ‘-dividual’ city Matti Pohjonen By Matti Pohjonen Bihardays note (At the request of our readers Matti is sharing the technique used in his photo series on Bombay Dividual city) I just returned from Bombay a month back where I was doing a photo shoot (or should we call this pixelography nowadays?) of the city. The aim here was to create a portrait of global cities in terms of what I call ‘-dividualism’ — that which precedes the individual.  We have seen too many picture of smiling faces, or more specifically, too much photography of teeth. Of individuals... 

Matti Pohjonen- Photo Feature: “Dividual City”- Bombay Matti Pohjonen By Matti Pohjonen This week Bihardays is bringing Matti Pohjonen’s photos of Bomabay. “Dividual City” was a series of pictures taken in Bombay in 2006.  My aim here was to create a portrait of an urban city that would not focus – as has been the stereotype often especially in countries in India – aesthetically only on people, on smiling faces. Why? Anybody who visits a city such as Bombay for more than a few days knows that in such an enormous metropolis most of the people we meet are not concrete individuals.... 

Matti Pohjonen- Photo Feature: Time and the Other By Matti Pohjonen (Editor’s note: Bihardays is pleased to exhibit Matti Pohjonen’s work.  Today we are presenting his series ‘Time and the other’ , photographs from Ethiopia. Next Saturday, our readers will be able to see his series on Bombay) I have never really considered myself a photographer.  Rather, I have always seen the camera as just one among the many possible ways for expressing an idea or a concept. With an earlier background in critical anthropology, philosophy, journalism and political theory (in addition...