KARI ENNOLA 
Landscape and Time: I.K. Inha and K.A. Ennola

The Landscape and Time exhibition comprises photographs taken by I.K. Inha at the end of the 19^th century plus photographs taken of the same places by K.A. Ennola at the end of the 20^th century. The images show how the landscape has changed over the past hundred years.

Ennola’s photographs replicate Inha’s pictures exactly: the time of year, the lighting conditions and the viewing point are the same. Ennola’s black and white photos placed side by side with those taken by Inha clearly show the changes in the landscape.

From Inha’s pictures we can see how sparse the forests were at the beginning of the 20^th century. The growth and spread of forested areas is one of the most obvious changes of the past hundred years. Rapids, on the other hand, have experienced a rather different fate: of all the rapids that Inha photographed, only two are still in their natural state. Change can also be seen in the cultural landscape, where the growth of towns, industry and changes in building styles are shown very clearly. Similarly, the enlargement of the road and rail network can be seen in many places. But it is also possible to see that some things have not changed: many of the landscapes in Inha’s photographs still look surprisingly the same.