Happy/Brooklyn 1988-93

The pictures in this book are from her first photograpy project. During her time as a photography student in Stockholm she traveled to Brooklyn to visit her grandmother Anna and to tell the story about Finntown, a part of Brooklyn that in those days were inhabited by finnish imigrants. In the weekends she visited Coney Island, photographing people swimming, adolescents roamimg the beach and familys on picnic.00?One flight down in the basement the sauna was being heated up; one flight up the band from Puerto Rico was rehearsing for the upcoming Saturday party, and in the bar in between the atmosphere was already loud and cheerful and expectant; the place was steamy and smoky and languages and dialects were mixing there just as wildly as Eddie?s well drinks.?00?Everyone was there, one Wednesday evening among other Wednesday evenings, in the late autumn of 1988 at Imatra, the Finnish Community House on 40th Street, and a stone?s throw from Sunset Park in Brooklyn.?00?Life and taking photographs were pleasurable, simple and unpretentious. This book is a tribute to all the people I met, and to that which was, which never will be again.0Remember.?00Nina Korhonen was born 1961 in Tampere, Finland. Since 1981 she lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work has been exhibited since 1990 and she is recipient of several awards. Her book ?Anna Amerikan mummu? won the Swedish Photobook Prize 2004.