Photography

Ilkka Uimone was born in Finland in 1966, he grow up in a little town called Rovaniemi, in the south of Arctic polar circle. After graduate in the highscool she start to travel thought U.S.A., Europe and Asia, working in all kind of things. When he turned twenty five he discovered photography and went to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Hague in Holand.Then in 1993, he start to work independently for some newspapers from there. But after knowing Eddie Adams in a studio, he became member of the Sygma agency.There in New York he has until know his home, even if he works to Magnum agency.
Uimonen photos have appeared in Newsweek, Time, People and others magazines around the world. For National Geographic he has done some repots like “Afganistan faces “, he has also done a book about this subject in 2004 called Cyd’es.
This photo was taken in Afghanistan in December 1998 there was a political situation very unstable, because they have suffered changes from monarchy to communism and know to the Islamism. The country is divided between Northern alliance and Talibans. They control the country since 1998. In this photography we can see three women looking down. We can see a part of their faces but not enough. I really like the colors, the red tones going to blues hiding their pain. The light who is across the picture contrast the all scene. In fact it’s  very expressive to me, and represent one aspect of the Afghanistan society witch are women in this country. Here they are in a dark room because they didn’t have electric light. The only light is the sun who enter to the room by a hole in the roof.