Vuoden
Christina
of the Year
2009
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Gloria Culture
Award
2009
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The Finest
Finnish Books
2008
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State
Award
for Children`s
Culture 2006
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The
Culture Award
of Finnish Medical
Society Duodecimin
2006
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Young
Photographer
of the Year
2005
Christina
of the Year
2009
____
Gloria Culture
Award
2009
____
The Finest
Finnish Books
2008
____
State
Award
for Children`s
Culture 2006
____
The
Culture Award
of Finnish Medical
Society Duodecimin
2006
____
Young
Photographer
of the Year
2005
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THE
LOVELIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD -BOOK
ORDER
THE BOOK
STATE AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S CULTURE
TO MIINA SAVOLAINEN
NEWS
“Mystic.
Comforting. Amazingly beautiful.
These adjectives
fit well
to the bestseller book The Loveliest Girl In The World. In these
enchanting
photographs the girls are dressed up as mythical spirits of the forest
who roam
in the Finnish nature like misty angels. These photographs
have been said to comfort broken hearts.”
EEVA
“The Loveliest Girl
in the World is a stunningly beautiful book.
In these fantasy-like
pictures young women reveal the most hidden and
fragile sides of
themselves. There are no problem children
in foster homes but
fairies.”
CITY
In this recently
published book Ann-Maria has been photographed throughout
1998-2006.
From a scared young girl she has grown up to be a woman who looks
boldly
into the world. “I wouldn’t be the same person
without this project. Every single
photoshoot made me stronger. The
photographs allowed me to look and love myself.”
HELSINGIN SANOMAT
“ A fantastic
photography book! This epic book is astonishing
and breathtaking. The
pictures are like a fantasy, but they are real.
Material choices are
successful and printing work is near perfect.
The Loveliest Girl in the
world is the most perfect photography book
I have ever seen - and it is
a part of an even greater project.”
AGI
“ Savolainen wished
to create this book as well as she could without
any compromises and so
she did. This 200 page book is also decorated by artwork
of graphic
artist Pia Lång. The text is also in English.
Finishing touch is first class.”
TALOUSELÄMÄ
“The last
year’s leading figure is Miina Savolainen. The Loveliest Girl
in
the World shows children’s house girls, as they wanted to be
seen.
This book combining photography and metal graphic
technique is a
unique work of art.”
KAMERALEHTI
“Last year’s
most touching art book must be here. I wish all foster
home kids could
be pictured like this. This way there could be a few
more healthy souls
in the world.”
ILKKA
“The beauty in the
book is not just the surface which we are used to see
in advertisements.
There is more than a hint of soul and wildness,
which we can see in the
pictured girls and Finnish nature. You could
buy this piece of work for
the sake of its amazing photographs or just
to experience the greatness
of it’s graphic works. It’s a multi-art piece,
which was
created from an urge to do something important
and beautiful.
It’s captive and wonderful.”
MAASEUDUN TULEVAISUUS
“About ten years
ago Miina Savolainen began photographing girls
from children’s
houses in roles that the girls themselves got to choose.
The result was
self-esteem and control of life and the method was
named empowering
photography. Printmaker Pia Lång’s and
graphic designer
Minna Luoma’s mesmerising work
honour the ethical content of the
book.”
GLORIA
“The Loveliest Girl
In The World is a deliciously beautiful art book
that holds a fantasy
world of deep feelings, that takes you into other
dimensions, into
mythical stories. The greatest value still lies in
it’s content:
it’s the sensitive and brave story of ten girls
who grew up in
children houses.”
APU
“The Loveliest Girl
in the World is a book that also takes an adult
into the empowering
world of fairytale for a moment. Photographer and art
educator Miina
Savolainen’s pictures and stories of young women who have
grown
up in children’s houses are touching. The way that
the girls are
pictured is so real and so sensitive,
it is hard to watch them without
crying.”
MEIDÄN PERHE
The Jade’s
Favourite: “The Loveliest Girl in the World is an art book
that
you have to feel and gaze for a long time.”
JADE
“These sore,
beautiful, fragile and strong photographs move you on the pages
of the
book. Pictures that Savolainen has shot provide peace and presence.
There are
dreamlike peaks, rivers, cliffs, rocks and moonlight that
call you to revisit the book’s pages
again and again. Pia
Lång’s delicate etching work gives the book’s
dark
pages a new dimension.”
KIRKKO&KAUPUNKI
“Probably the most
touching thing in The Loveliest Girl In The World is that every girl
is
truly beautiful and here, beauty doesn’t mean just the ideal
beauty of our culture.
Miina Savolainen has caught the depth of girls - everyone´s right
to be seen
as beautiful, good and true – loving and beloved.”
SANA
“The Loveliest Girl
In The World is a different art book for a family.
It is a carefully
crafted complete work of art where fabulous and great photographs
by
Miina Savolainen and handmade graphic art by printmaker Pia Lång
with
‘the loveliest touch in the world’ go together.”
KESKIPOHJALAINEN
“The Loveliest Girl
In The World is an outstanding
piece of photography art.”
NYKYPAIVA
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