Environmental Graffiti

Warehouse Vs. Fire

Controlling fire is a human skill developed many thousands of years ago. Yet when we’re unable to defeat it, what strikes us is not only the destruction in a fire’s path but also its strange beauty, which we watch with guilty pleasure. A warehouse fire in Helsinki’s city centre left many bystanders mesmerized. One of them was Petteri Sulonen who grabbed his telephoto lens as soon as he heard news of the fire and rushed to the site. The result is this stunning series of photographs.

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Mysterious Green Haze Over Helsinki [PICS]

It's like something ethereal you know is there before you but just can’t quite make out. Carbon emissions and climate change are all too real, yet such concepts are often either too intangible or large-scale to get a handle on. So when a green cloud appeared in the night sky amidst the haze of industrial smoke over Helsinki, it’s good to know the strange apparition switched on a few energy saving light bulbs in people’s heads.

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