Jenni Haili takes me on a historical photography tour through the eyes of her great-great-aunt Fanny and her great-aunt Signe, two women from each side of her family tree and each side of Finland, who both left their home at a young age in the beginning of the 20th century and moved to America. Jenni has researched their relocations and travelled in their footsteps, visualising their lives in an installation of overlapping places and time: a suggestive reconstruction of lost memories. For her solo exhibition Voyage Out in Forum Box gallery in Helsinki, she has made a vast collection of new ambrotypes, mixing historical, current and imagined landscapes and cityscapes, using the distinct photo technique as an aesthetic glue for her collage. Jenni guides us through the two timelines chronologically, while we get to know about the history and chemistry of the delicate, old school process of working with wet plate collodion photography. We also talk about creative compromises and ongoing projects, and getting to know your own family through historical and artistic research.

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