Christina
of the Year
2009
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Gloria Culture
Award
2009
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The Finest
Finnish Books
2008
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State
Award
for Children`s
Culture 2006
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The
Culture Award
of Finnish Medical
Society Duodecimin
2006
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Young
Photographer
of the Year
2005
Christina
of the Year
2009
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Gloria Culture
Award
2009
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The Finest
Finnish Books
2008
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State
Award
for Children`s
Culture 2006
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The
Culture Award
of Finnish Medical
Society Duodecimin
2006
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Young
Photographer
of the Year
2005
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THE
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THE
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WASHINGTON POST:
"The 120 photos in "The Loveliest Girl in
the World" depict not
just the grandeur of the Finnish wilderness and the subjects
fairy-tale
scenarios. They also show the process of gaining trust and confidence.
The photographs represent the appeal of
a
modern
fairy-tale moral: that people can take real strength from their
invented selves."
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LOVELIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD EXHIBIT
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The
Embassy of Finland, Washington D.C.
"These
images are so extraordinary. Reflective, beautiful, prophetic.
I see the tones of
pain, courage and hope reflected in some of the
most profound
images I have seen. The essence of each lovely girl
seeps through the
photograph. I am moved by the relationship between
the photographer
and each girl. The physical
settings
are imaginative and speak of another world. "
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FEEDBACK FROM TOUCHED AMERICAN AUDIENCE
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MIINA
SAVOLAINEN´S TALK AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 10, 5–8 p.m.
"The Loveliest Girl in the World and the method of Empowering
Photography".
DEUTSCHES
HAUS, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
420 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027
GENERAL
CONSULATE OF FINLAND IN NEW YORK
COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY
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IN OTTAWA, CANADA CAME AT THE END.
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STATE AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S CULTURE
TO MIINA SAVOLAINEN
NEWS
A COMMENT FROM THE EXHIBIT´S
GUEST BOOK FROM OTTAWA:
”Dear Miina,
I am
so very proud of you. Your art, your support of girls
and women, I can´t explain all of the emotions I feel for your
work.
Please let all of your models know how beautiful they are and what
a priviledge bestowed upon
them to be such an important
part of art history
and women´s history.”
ANTOINETTE
ZLOTY
CONGRESS OF BLACK WOMEN OF CANADA
“Mystic.
Comforting. Amazingly beautiful.
These adjectives
fit well
to the bestseller book The Loveliest Girl In The World.
In these enchanting
photographs the girls are dressed up as mythical spirits of the forest
who roam in the Finnish nature like misty angels. These photographs
have been said to comfort broken hearts.”
EEVA MAGAZINE
“The Loveliest Girl
in the World is a stunningly beautiful book.
In these fantasy-like
pictures young women reveal the most hidden and
fragile sides of
themselves. There are no problem children
in foster homes but
fairies.”
CITY MAGAZINE
In this recently
published book Ann-Maria has been photographed throughout
1998-2006.
From a scared young girl she has grown up to be a woman who looks
boldly
into the world. “I wouldn’t be the same person
without this project. Every single
photoshoot made me stronger. The
photographs allowed me to look and love myself.”
HELSINGIN SANOMAT MAGAZINE
“ A fantastic
photography book! This epic book is astonishing
and breathtaking. The
pictures are like a fantasy, but they are real.
Material choices are
successful and printing work is near perfect.
The Loveliest Girl in the
world is the most perfect photography book
I have ever seen - and it is
a part of an even greater project.”
AGI MAGAZINE
“ Savolainen wished
to create this book as well as she could without
any compromises and so
she did. This 200 page book is also decorated by artwork
of graphic
artist Pia Lång. The text is also in English.
Finishing touch is first class.”
TALOUSELÄMÄ MAGAZINE
“The last
year’s leading figure is Miina Savolainen. The Loveliest Girl
in
the World shows children’s house girls, as they wanted to be
seen.
This book combining photography and metal graphic
technique is a
unique work of art.”
KAMERALEHTI MAGAZINE
“Last year’s
most touching art book must be here. I wish all foster
home kids could
be pictured like this. This way there could be a few
more healthy souls
in the world.”
ILKKA MAGAZINE
“The beauty in the
book is not just the surface which we are used to see
in advertisements.
There is more than a hint of soul and wildness,
which we can see in the
pictured girls and Finnish nature. You could
buy this piece of work for
the sake of its amazing photographs or just
to experience the greatness
of it’s graphic works. It’s a multi-art piece,
which was
created from an urge to do something important
and beautiful.
It’s captive and wonderful.”
MAASEUDUN TULEVAISUUS MAGAZINE
“About ten years
ago Miina Savolainen began photographing girls
from children’s
houses in roles that the girls themselves got to choose.
The result was
self-esteem and control of life and the method was
named empowering
photography. Printmaker Pia Lång’s and
graphic designer
Minna Luoma’s mesmerising work
honour the ethical content of the
book.”
GLORIA MAGAZINE
“The Loveliest Girl
In The World is a deliciously beautiful art book
that holds a fantasy
world of deep feelings, that takes you into other
dimensions, into
mythical stories. The greatest value still lies in
it’s content:
it’s the sensitive and brave story of ten girls
who grew up in
children houses.”
APU MAGAZINE
“The Loveliest Girl
in the World is a book that also takes an adult
into the empowering
world of fairytale for a moment. Photographer and art
educator Miina
Savolainen’s pictures and stories of young women who have
grown
up in children’s houses are touching. The way that
the girls are
pictured is so real and so sensitive,
it is hard to watch them without
crying.”
MEIDÄN PERHE MAGAZINE
The Jade’s
Favourite: “The Loveliest Girl in the World is an art book
that
you have to feel and gaze for a long time.”
JADE MAGAZINE
“These sore,
beautiful, fragile and strong photographs move you on the pages
of the
book. Pictures that Savolainen has shot provide peace and presence.
There are
dreamlike peaks, rivers, cliffs, rocks and moonlight that
call you to revisit the book’s pages
again and again. Pia
Lång’s delicate etching work gives the book’s
dark
pages a new dimension.”
KIRKKO&KAUPUNKI MAGAZINE
“Probably the most
touching thing in The Loveliest Girl In The World is that every girl
is
truly beautiful and here, beauty doesn’t mean just the ideal
beauty of our culture.
Miina Savolainen has caught the depth of girls - everyone´s right
to be seen
as beautiful, good and true – loving and beloved.”
SANA MAGAZINE
“The Loveliest Girl
In The World is a different art book for a family.
It is a carefully
crafted complete work of art where fabulous and great photographs
by
Miina Savolainen and handmade graphic art by printmaker Pia Lång
with
‘the loveliest touch in the world’ go together.”
KESKIPOHJALAINEN MAGAZINE
“The Loveliest Girl
In The World is an outstanding
piece of photography art.”
NYKYPAIVA MAGAZINE
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