Kimmo Metsäranta: Notes on a Place

Notes on a Place is a book focusing on the experiential nature of urban space. The pictures in the series are reconstructed observations of the photographers surroundings. They form an urban landscape that balances between surrealism and realism. In the series places become artificial, the everyday scene presents itself as an unusual, stage-like imitation of itself. Notes on a Place -book was selected among the Most Beautiful Books of 2023 by the Finnish Book Art Committee and was also shortlisted for the Rencontres d’Arles Book Award in 2024.