The Portfolio Edition of "Here, in Absence" is for the collector. Inside a handmade (by me) cloth clamshell box you will find the signed first edition of my 2024 book together with six silver gelatin prints. Just 5 copies available www.mikaelsiirila.fi.

Print pairing. Untitled (white walls, 2024) with Untitled (wall and label, 2017). Silver gelatin prints 15x22cm, editions 25. #analogphotography #darkroom
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Print pairing. Untitled (spoon, 2019), Untitled (elbow and plate, 2021). Silver gelatin prints, 15x22cm, edition 25.
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Print pairing with birds. Untitled (spherical swan), Untitled (seagul) in editions of 25. #photography #filmphotography #printmaking

Grainy details from prints scans. I am obsessed with the natural sandyness of tri-x. #filmphotohraphy #analogphotography #silvergelatin

Print pairing. Untitled (hand and bowl), Untitled (hand and chair), editions 25, 15x22 cm #silvergelatin #photographs.

Darkroom vibes. #darkroom #photography

New print & pairing. Untitled (concrete and foliage), 2024, Untitled (bitd and beak), 2019. Silver gelatin photographs, 15x22cm, editions 25. #photography #filmphotography #darkroom

New 2024 prints. Untitled (hand and rice), Untitled (hair and sea), toned silver gelatin prints, editions 25.

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Sending out photobooks ✈️ thank you for all the orders! Signed 2nd edition copies are still available via my website. Worldwide shipping with UPS. #photobook #photography #filmphotography
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New print: Untitled (seagul), silver gelatin photograph, edition 25.
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Looking at some 2024 prints combined: Untitled (observatory) with Untitled (arm and table). Silver gelatin prints, 15x22cm, editions of 25.
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Shipping by courier from Finland can be prohibitive - in the spirit of this consumerist season I will offer free worldwide shipping with UPS 🥂 for all #silvergelatinprints.
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Last night in the darkroom I played with the idea of photographs as fossils (of light). Fascinating similarities. Both are material traces of the past; both carry information that nothing else can preserve but hide what we most want to know.

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