Trygg, Tarja

Doctoral Student, Licentiate of Arts, Senior Lecturer at the Gept of Art, Aalto University  School of Art and Design Helsinki.

Interest in Art: Especially Photography.

Interest in research: Research on Solargraphy, Lensless Pinhole Photography, revealing the invisible to visible, extremely long exposures even from the Solstice to Solstice, experimental photography with non-toxic developing, making the simplest pinhole camera obscura, using both analogical and digital photography together, surprises in photographs and understanding better the space outside the world, the huge universe where we exist.

Description of my recent research work:

I research on SOLARGRAPHY including the global pinhole photographic art project of Solargraphy on the Net. www.solargraphy.com

In Solargraphs, the world reveals things to us we would normally not be able to see.

The track of the sun across the sky changes according to the position of the observer in relation to geographical latitudes. The main question in my research is: How different are the movements of the Sun at various latitudes?

The sky with the movements of the Sun is not sufficient: Landscapes or urban views in cities tell us about the context and the atmosphere as well.

The research is a pragmatic, experimental and cooperative artistic work. The world has rapidly become digitalized and the Internet is a good tool for keeping in contact with participants from all around the world. The simplest pinhole can cameras record the paths of the Sun all over the world. Mapping out the sun from different latitudes can be shown on the Solargraphy Gallery. Solargraphy allows us to see the phenomena of nature and makes the invisible to visible. When the pinhole camera has been loaded a piece of b&w photo paper it is set to face the Sun for an extremely long exposure even half a year, the tracks will be visible through heat and sunlight without using any chemicals and the final images are turned out in colours.