Aki Sinikoski

"I spent most of my childhood summers in the Finnish archipelago where we lived in our old fishing boat. Almost every night we travelled to a new island. Already as a kid I learned that if I make a campfire, people would gather around it. So every night I did a campfire and every night people gathered around it. Later in the night people started to tell stories. Every time I did a campfire I got new stories. I just listened to and memorised these stories, and after the summer I told the stories to my friends in the city. I think I’m still doing the same thing. Collecting stories and telling them to other people with the help of my photos.”

Aki-Pekka Sinikoski is a Finnish photographer and writer working somewhere in the borderline between documentaries, contemporary art, and performative art. Sinikoski has studied in Kunstakademiet at Kunsthøgskolen in Bergen, Norway and graduated as Masters of Arts from Aalto University, Finland (TaiK, Helsinki).