About Marja Pirilä

I have been working intensely with camera obscura technique since 1996. Besides my oldest and still on going project "Interior/Exterior" (1996–) I have made the projects "Milavida" (2012-2013), "Speaking House" (2004–2006), "Inner Landscapes" (2009–2011) and "In Strindberg´s Rooms" 29017. I have also built many three dimensional camera obscuras with Petri Nuutinen.
I graduated as a photographer and as a biologist (ecological zoology) In 1986. In the course of my master’s thesis of biology I became immersed for days on end in the world of flies and their metamorphoses. Suddenly I recalled a childhood experience which changed everything: How different would this same world appear if I were something else – perhaps a fly?
I have had dozens of solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions both in Finland and abroad. "Carried by Light" is my fifth photo book and was published in 2014.

Marja Pirilä's Projects on LensCulture
Marja Pirilä's Books