Life inside Finland: Helsinki homes
I’m happy to be living once again in California, luxuriating in sunny days, but sometimes I long for the quiet that comes with snow. I miss those magical moments in time when the city I lived in turned into a tranquil wonderland of white. I lived in Helsinki Finland for three years, trying in vain to learn the language, walking more than I ever have in my life and experiencing the Finnish home through the camera lens. These are photos I took while I was living in Helsinki, working as a real estate photographer. The people portrait photos are from Hel Looks – in incredibly addictive site documenting street fashion in Helsinki.
Next Finnish home feature on Monday.
Hel Looks.
Photos by Indra Fortney.
Paritalo – duplex home. It was two years before we had a car in Finland so I took public transportation everywhere. Lugging a massive camera case I traveled via tram, bus and sometimes train to get to these suburbs. Often I was lost, wandering down a tree banked road with snow up to my ankles, wondering in a surreal kind of way how I ended up here!
Clean and simple.
Packed subway. The outside of the entire train is laminated in faces, an advertisement campaign for the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper.
Kerrastalo- apartment building.
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