Text by Matti-Juhani Karila (translated and abbreviated by Anna Ovaska)
I am not a photographer, but I’ve gotten hooked on the mysterious enchantment of photos – on this ”one-hundredth part of a second which makes a blink of an eye eternal”, as American poet Hart Grane described the essence of photography in 1923.
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