Finale years (2011-2020)

Finale years (2011-2020) galleries

In 2011 I recieved the Artists pension from Finnish State and in 2012, a grant from Patricia Seppälä´s foundation to make a book about my career as a photographer. This website is an integral part of that project. I have used the time from 2003 to this day to meditate and organize/edit my previous photographer life into image files and also written memories in my notebooks The Life story is now ready and can be reached from the front page. “Jukka`s better blues”. I believe a bit in the saying that one´s life advances in periods of seven years. Therefore I feel that now in 2013 is time to move ahead again. Start to use my skills and tools to achieve that “Fullfilment´s FirstFinale” I have been waiting for.

In 2013 I was diagnosed with a muscle disorder, that gradually hampers my work. All has to be planned carefully in advande. How to move, what is possible to lift &carry and so on. Therefore my activity is now studio “table top ” abstract photography. Some of it can be seen.

You can also listen my spoken memories in Yle/arena program:

https://areena.yle.fi/1-1704941

I am thankful if I have kept your interest alive here ! Jukka Watanen. (2014)