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Considerations of the relationship of past and present are crystallised in Jorma Puranen’s (born 1951) work in photography. In his many different yet always equally compelling and precisely executed projects, he has worked in a wide-ranging manner with various historical visual sources since the early 1990s.

In ‘Memorandum of Loss’, Puranen is interested in disappearances and losses of various kinds and stories about them. The multi-part collection of works assembles matters and phenomena whose only shared feature is their disappearance. Over the years, Puranen has collected old photographs, …