Taken from the ferry from Nauvo to Utö
During our first weekend in Finland, myself and Pete went south to the Archipelago. We took a rather inspiring ferry ride to the island of Utö, the furthest inhabited island with a population of 20, it was only recently vacated by the military who left behind a maze of debris, it is also home to the pilots who help ships navigate the dangerous waters of the Archipelago. It took us 1.5 hours by coach and a further 5 hours by ferry, its isolated & beautifully bleak.
The ferry ride seemed to embody so much of what I have been thinking about over the last half a year, time, speed, distance, the horizon line and the edge of the land & the edge of the frame. We travelled at constant steady speed as the surrounding islands passed us by like a rolling back-drop on a film set. The weather was overcast and the islands appeared and disappeared gracefully into the clouds. They were frequent and varied, but gradually over the course of the 5 hours they became less and less and instead of water in amongst the islands it became the islands dotted in amongst the sea, we left in daylight and arrived in darkness. I intend to go back and film the journey.
