Outside the Garden is a series that looks at religion from a personal and social point of view. The series explores the buildings that represent religion and the angle of view from the point of an individual human being.
'“The series began when I arrived to Rovaniemi in late summer 2018. I was walking around the city in the evening and noticed a bright red cross overlooking the streets and fields of Rovaniemi. I found it unusual that a cross on top of a church was lit bright red, the likes of which I hadn’t seen in Finland before. The church represents the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland”.
I wanted the images to express feelings of a small human being encountering these buildings and their towers. I used longer exposure times and zoom to create a sense of disorientation. For me religion in general is a question of power and these buildings represent that power.
Ilari is a Media Science student and photographer from Finland, now based in Rovaniemi. MAP6 first encountered Ilari during our visit to Rovaniemi earlier this year.