Heikki Aho and Björn Soldan, sons of renowned Finnish writer Juhani Aho, founded Aho & Soldan in 1925. The 1930’s were a golden era for the company, as the two men established themselves as Finland’s most highly regarded documentary filmmakers. They went on to make their mark as photographers as members of the avant-garde ABISS group, whose first exhibition in 1930 represented a sea change in Finnish photography.
The photographs and documentaries in the exhibition at Virka Gallery focus on everyday life in Helsinki, in its many ordinary and extraordinary guises. The works are imbued with a sense of light-hearted optimism as Helsinki prepares for the Olympic Games and a construction boom is changing the face of the city.
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