Fotografiska Tallinn

Off to Estonia early in the morning. From Tallinn harbour we headed straight to the new Fotografiska Tallinn. There were three exhibitions: James Nachtwey, Sebastião Salgado and Vincent Peters. All were great work and the large prints looked impressing.

Nachtwey's work is quite shocking (there was a warning at the door!): most of victims of war, hunger, drug addiction etc. It really made my own problems seem very small. The first photo by the door said it all. A small boy in the shadows in the foreground, with just white eyeballs visible in his dark face, with a dead man lying on the boardwalk in the background. 

Salgado's Brazilian gold miners were also quite shocking. The work conditions are terrible, though some of them may get rich. Many don't.

Vincent Peters was something else. Beautiful portraits of models, actresses and actors, photographed in a style that I liked very much.

Afterwards looked at the gorgeous books at the museum bookstore, but didn't buy any. Then coffee at the café and off to my mother-in-law's.