
War is a Disaster
- Publisher
- Utu Press
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-952-65274-2-0
- Specifications
- Softcover with three-colour screenprinted sleeve
19 x 26.5 cm
Texts by Henri Airo, Ahmed Al-Nawas, Susanna Hast, Noora Kotilainen, Saara Sarma and Leena Vastapuu
Finnish Photobook Award 2024
The Most Beautiful Books selection 2024
Photo/Frome Photobook Award 2024
Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award 2025
Shortlisted, Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2025, Photo-Text Book Award
Myths and traumas are the building blocks of collective consciousness: canonised narratives create identities and affiliations, and divisions between us and others. This researched and visually dense work explores Finnish war remembrance and sums up its essence in the title. Visual culture serves as a means of imagining and identifying with past conflict, and a central theme is the relationship between willing conviction and inherited ideals, and the moral friction they contain. Photographs and archival material are brought together so that collective and personal memories meet on the same page.