◇ PHOTOGRAPHY 87 TAMPERE - Backlight | Photo Festival
The Tampere-born Metamorphosis of Documentary Photography
In June 1987 three photographers from Great Britain arrived in Tampere: Martin Parr, Paul Graham and Victor Burgin. New British photography filled the then Museum of Modern Art of Tampere with large photos that shone with colour and a critical attitude towards traditional documentary.
Victor Burgin, who was known as a photographer and a theoretician, surprised the audience of the opening lecture of the first international photographic event Photography 87 Tampere, by his conceptual and poster-like Office at Night -pictures and by his psychoanalysis-coloured pondering on the fundamental passion of photography: voyeurism. Merja Salo crystallised Burgin's thoughts in an interview in Valokuva (Finnish Photography) - magazine: "That which is not photographed is equally interesting as that which is photographed" (Salo, 1987).
