Category Archives: Fine art photography

Why I photograph nature

22.6.2026 Kati Kalkamo

Trust the process, photographer Kati Kalkamo — Trust the process (2021), 1/8 + 3 AP, photographer Kati Kalkamo

All life above all, photographer Kati Kalkamo — Trust the process (2021), 1/8 + 3 AP, photographer Kati Kalkamo

I’ve been asked why I choose to photograph nature and why there is almost never people in my photographs.

In nature I recharge my batteries. But I get exhausted after social events. And I would rather choose a good walk in the forest than a really big party. I like trees more than many people.

I’ve always had hard time to relate with people and to fit in. But in nature I can always find something to relate.

I can find stories and personalities that intrigue me everywhere. And I can get really excited about a fallen leaf or a twig and get my imagination flying.

Fine art photography, Fine art print, photography

Place for everything

24.5.2026 Kati Kalkamo

”Place for everything”, 8+3 AP.

This photograph is from one of my favorite photo spots, a ditch bank, on a quiet road near a popular outdoor trail. I am fascinated by the place’s invisibility and insignificance to our appreciative gaze. And how abundant and diverse the plants flourish next to each other.

Everything has its own place, its own personality, its own voice. They share the space, even though they compete for light, resources and space, while at the same time allowing everyone to flourish.

Fine art photography, Fine art print, photography

It all has a worth

11.5.2026 Kati Kalkamo

”It all has a worth”, 8+3 AP.

I found this withered grass just a few dozen meters away from my doorstep.

I could have stared and photographed it for hours. I was fascinated by how the light played on the grass, how the grass formed abstract patterns before my eyes. Like it was drawn by nature.

We look for beauty from vanishing untouched nature. We value nature with our eyes and seek for something breathtaking, something big, predefined beauty and value. The beauty of nature is all around us, even close by and unnoticeable, vanishing and fleeting. In nature, everything has its place, its own personality and its own story.

We need to learn to look close and see value and beauty even in the unnoticeable and insignificant. Which is as meaningful and as valuable as the magnificent landscapes and untouched nature.

Fine art photography, Fine art print, photography

Now you can see me

14.2.2026 Kati Kalkamo

“Now you can see me”, 8+3 AP.

There’s so much noise in this world. It prevents us from seeing, from being present.

I used to drive by this tree frequently, sometimes daily. It grew by an intersection of a busy road.

It still remains there but a big part of it has fallen and been removed. I think it must have been passed by millions of times, and probably hardly ever noticed.

Fine art photography

Elegance of a Ditch exhibition at Naantalin taidehuone

22.7.2025 Kati Kalkamo

Photographer Kati Kalkamo’s Elegance of a Ditch exhibition opened on 22nd of July at Naantalin taidehuone. Exhibition is open 22.7.–10.8.2025 at Naantalin taidehuone.

Elegance of a ditch

We look for beauty from vanishing untouched nature. We give value to nature with our eyes and seek for something breathtaking, something big, predefined beauty and value. The beauty of nature is all around us, even close by and unnoticeable, vanishing and fleeting. In nature, everything has its place, its own personality and its own story.

Elegance of a Ditch exhibition celebrates nature’s imperceptible beauty in ditches, roadsides, banks of ponds and wastelands. These burst with life, seizing the moment, and radiate life’s fleeting elegance. With my photographs I want to give my subjects a possibility to be seen.

Elegance of a ditch

Illustrations, prints and fine art photographs.