as part of Goethe x Change
Lasse Nordlund (s.1965) is the only living person in Finland known to have lived self-sustained for decades. Nordlund has been living in the forest of North Karelia since the beginning of 1990´s. Now Lasse and his partner
Maria Dorff share a home with their two children. The couple has in recent years become key figures in the Finnish “post-fossil” movement. Lasse and Maria are establishing a school for self-sufficiency, first of its kind in the world. Energy politics, food and merchandise production and critique of growth economy are all acute themes and directly connected to the lifestyle experiment of Nordlund and Dorff and the founding of the self-sufficiency school.
Bild: Touko Hujanen
Photojournalist
Touko Hujanen followed the life of Nordlund and Dorff in 2018 during four seasons, documenting the unique lifestyle of the family and the cycle of farming and the building of the self-sufficiency school with the help of volunteer work.
In this event, Touko Hujanen will introduce his project and the process of it. This will be followed up with a Q&A session, moderated by Gero Grundmann, designer and curator of the program Goethe x Change.
Some of the photographs of the project can be seen as part of the exhibition "Festival of Political Photography 2019: Potentiality" at the Finnish Museum of Photography until 26.5.2019.
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