Anna Karoliina is a London-based photographic artist manipulating her photographs by hand, and adding different textures on them. She burns and freeze the photographs, and paint and draw on them. Here is what she had to say about her latest project “Vedessä “: “My work is about the relationship between time and memories, and the way time changes our perception of the past. Life as we know it is as thin as ice. The beauty of life is tightly linked to the fragility of our existence and the disappearing nature of things. We take photographs to preserve time – an image is like a certificate that we have existed.The people in my photographs are always my family members and friends. By painting on my photographs I want to highlight our tendency to erase, alter and change our memories, and juxtapoze old and new; temporary and permanent. I decided to use tempera paints because of their rich texture and their long history. Tempera is one of the oldest paints and the pigments were the primary medium for painting until oil colours were discovered around 1500. Symbolic, silent language is very important when looking at my works. I want to use my subjects as visual metaphors and as aids for storytelling.“
