Maija Tammi

Maija Tammi (* 1985 in Lieto ) is a Finnish photographer . Since 2005 she has been working as a journalist and photographer for daily newspapers and magazines, including Turun Sanomat , Helsingin Sanomat and the women's magazine MeNaiset . She completed her photojournalism studies at Tampere University at the end of 2010 as a Master of Science . She has also worked with Christopher Anderson from Magnum Photos agency .

She lives and works in Finland, Canada and the USA.

subjects

She became known after her photo series Bingo , which shows bingo players in Turku , Tampere and Canada . In 2011 she received the most important Finnish photo prize, the Fotofinlandia award , for these photos . The jury found that their pictures were the only ones that would not be hung on the wall. Other subjects of her work are life in Greenland , short stature in the USA and common diseases.

The report on short stature describes, among other things, the lovers Sofiya and Clinton and their everyday lives.

During the “Removes” project, she photographed freshly removed tumors , gallstones and the like in the operating room . Tammi has shown these recordings several times without saying what can be seen on them. Many then found the photos very aesthetic, especially gallstones as natural mineral formations . Tammi considers the rejection, which only occurs as soon as the audience knows what it is about, to be an acquired behavior. Likewise, be trained to perceive a leg before amputation or a hair before cutting as beautiful and then to be disgusted with it. The recordings were made in a hospital in Tampere, where Tammi visited regularly for over a year.

Awards

• 2010: Press Photographer of the Year
• 2011: Fotofinlandia award

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Maija Tammi. Report on the work with short stature in the photo magazine Polka (French)
2. ↑ ^{a b} D. Zinser: Photo series about removed body parts "Gallstones are really beautiful!" In: Spiegel Online. 20 July 2012