Markus Jokela

"I have always been interested in photographing normal,everyday life. For me the greatest challenge is to makean interesting image of something very ordinary, almostinvisible," reflects Finnish photographer Markus Jokela.His images are the result of coincidences and unplannedencounters with people and places. Jokela almost neverstages his photographs. Sometimes he asks people to stop,to freeze, but usually he just snaps one or two frames andcontinues walking. Moments and Landscapes of MinorImportance were shot in Helsinki between 2019 and 2023.Most of them were captured within a few kilometers fromwhere he lives.Jokela has won three World Press Photo awards, butdespite his proximity to global moments, his personal projectsoften document everyday human life.

MARKUS JOKELA (*1952, Helsinki) is a photographer who hastraveled the world to report on global news. He earned his MA insocial sciences at University of Tampere, Finland, and from 1981-93 worked as a journalist for the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper,before becoming a photo editor at the same newspaper, andeventually a photographer in 2001.