(Photo: Juhana Pettersson)
An overturned barrel of what I’m sure is 100% non-radioactive sludge at the abandoned Jupiter factory in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. Would you stick your finger into this?

(Photo: Juhana & Maria Pettersson)
A view of the Sarcophagus constructed over the no. 4 reactor at Chernobyl, taken from the rooftop of a sixteen-story building in Pripyat.

You’ll be interested to know that the penguins are queuing into a restaurant.

Note the antennae:

As seen in the Prague Sex Machine Museum.

Do you worry sometimes?

A stained glass window seen in a shopping center in Prague.

Gothic styles are in fashion at Cimetiere Montmartre in Paris this January:

This is a circus in a suburb of Paris this January. It huddled in the shadow of concrete apartment blocks, a long, treacherous walk from the obscure train station. Note the caravan in the darkness on the right. I don’t envy the circus people who live there in the cold.

Inside was one of the best [...]

At the Pyongyang Film Studios in North Korea they have permanent movie sets for a South Korean town of the Korean War era, a Japanese town, etc. The buildings feature posters representing the North Korean artists’ idea of what advertisements, shop signs and movie posters look like in the South.
(All photos by Juhana Pettersson.)

(Kuva: Juhana Pettersson)
Kirjoitin Kumppani-lehteen artikkelin kokemuksistani Pohjois-Koreassa. Juttu löytyy täältä.
Vaimoni Maria Pettersson kirjoitti samalta reissulta artikkelin City-lehteen. Se on täällä.

 
I was at the Midnight Sun Film Festival with my wife and some friends, in Lapland. The photo was taken around two at night, after we came out of the screening of the Guy Maddin movie Brand Upon the Brain!.
The drive back to Helsinki took fourteen hours. We drove in a new car with a [...]

Olimme äskettäin Saksassa roolipelitapahtuma MittelPunktissa. Mike pisti blogiinsa reissusta kuvan:

(Photo: J. Tuomas Harviainen, 2008)
Vasemmalla minä.

I’m now a married man. The ceremony took place in Las Vegas, NE, on the 7th of July. It was witnessed by two Elvises and a pink Cadillac. The bride and now my wife is Maria Pitkänen.

America:

Here’s another still from the anti-Bush demo in London I was shooting in preparation for the show Bouffe c’que j’te donne, material that was scrapped from the final version:

Here’s another image originally shot to be used in Bouffe c’que j’te donne, but left out after a rewrite. It’s from the 20th of November, 2003 anti-Bush demonstration in London.