Mikko Takkunen | +447853146309 | mikko@mikkotakkunen.com | London

Portraits

Selection of my portraiture

Irish milliner Philip Treacy at his London studio on assignment for the Wall Street Journal.
   
On assignment for the International Herald Tribune. Published 6 June 2011.
  
Irish milliner Philip Treacy at his London studio on assignment for the Wall Street Journal.
     
  
   
Marcia Kilgore, founder of Bliss Spa Group photographed at the company's London headquarters for the Wall Street Journal. December 2011.
   
Libya's the rebel National Transitional Council's spokesperson in Britain, Guma El-Gamaty, in London for Helsingin Sanomat (FIN). The article about the NTC and the on going war in Libya, written by the newspaper's London correspondent Tanja Vasama, ran in the Helsingin Sanomat's Foreign section Sunday 7 August 2011
     
  
Shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood in his Mayfair boutique in London for the Wall Street Journal. November 2011
   
Saskia Saloranta, 17, Finnish girl studying in Stonar School in England, for Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. Stonar is a £25K/per year boarding school in Wiltshire, and while there are hundreds of Finnish students in British universities, it is rather uncommon to find Finns in local boarding schools.
   
Dr. Titus Hjelm, Lecturer in Finnish Society and Culture at University College of London, on assignment for Yliopisto, a magazine published by University of Helsinki in Finland. May 2011
     
  
   
  
     
  
Shatila Refugee camp, Beirut, Lebanon. June 2011.
   
Shatila Refugee camp, Beirut, Lebanon. June 2011.
   
Shatila Refugee camp, Beirut, Lebanon. June 2011.
     
  
Jukka Kankkunen
   
  
Eino Siponen and his dog Arttu
     
  
Fatmata Kamara, 20. Fatmata lost both her parents during the war. She never went to school, and is learning to read and write at he Vocational Tailoring Training Centre (VTTC) in Bo. The centre offers year long workshops for young people affected by the war, many of whom lost their parents and some of whom have lived on the streets.
   
  
     
  
Mrs Lucy Navo, Circle 1 participant of the three Largo town adult literacy circles. The students are separated according their abilities, Circle 3 having the most advanced participants.