Jukka Onnela is a member of SMOKE. Smoke is a young art collective comprised of European photographers and artists. The themes that they focus on are freely associative, the writing distinct, the expression uncompromising with an approach marked by questions concerning the new methods of circulation and presentation of photo-based images. The newly-formed Smoke collective is currently exhibiting at the Arles Rencontres 2007 in France.
Explicitly or implicitly, the very name of the collective evokes the murky and mysterious world of a dissolving screen or image: an opaque and ephemeral curtain or the mature rejection of public imagery, including transparency of meaning or tradition-bound, conservative aesthetism.
Jukka Onnela (Finland). The image is a selfportrait taken 2003, taken from a larger series called "the matter of our crimes". It is a diary like series of photos about family, friends and other people around the photographer. The series also includes texts, selfportraits and some ephemera that Jukka Onnela has collected during the years, and he wishes to combine all of them into a book in the future.
