Aapo Huhta was born in Haapajärvi, Finland in 1985. He holds an MA in photography from the Aalto University of Arts and Design, Helsinki Finland.

Huhta works with his personal documentary based essay projects and makes commercial and editorial assignments for companies and magazines. In 2014, Huhta was selected as one of the Top 30 Under 30 photographers by the prestigious Magnum Photos. He also received the award of the Young Nordic Photographer of the Year 2015. His first monograph “Block” was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2015. His work has been published in Vice, Bloomberg Businessweek, Stern, Financial Times, Die Zeit Magazine, Dazed Digital, Paper Journal, Fotografia Magazine, APhotoEditor, Raymond, Suomen Kuvalehti, Image and Helsingin Sanomat among others.

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Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

About ‘BLOCK’:

Block is a photographic essay, amassed as a set of visions, offering hints for storylines in a murky, dystopic scene of the city witnessed by a stranger. Focusing on gray, concrete features with some people as spectators, narrowing down the elements in the frame, driven most often by the observation of the shapes the light creates, it alludes to a mute perspective toward contemporary city life and the people’s role in it.

Simultaneously it is a story where the photographer plays the role of a protagonist in the big city that throws a newcomer into its infinite whirl of new people and peculiar surroundings. Photographs for the series were shot in New York between 2014 and 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

Pictures from the book Block. All images courtesy of Aapo Huhta 2015.

The book was published by Kehrer Verlag on September 1st 2015. It has been exhibitied at:
Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm Sweden (9.6.-28.8.2016)
Kehrer Galerie, Berlin Germany (25.6.-27.8.2016)