Birgit´s Garden // Reviews & other actions

Birgit's Garden photo book // Media coverage // Interviews // Reviews

Book review and interview in #photography magazine issue 14, September 2015.

http://hashtagphotomag.tumblr.com/post/130434076619/birgits-garden-photo-book-by-eija-makivuoti

Infernollekin kuvaavan Eija Mäkivuotin valokuvateos vie Färsaarten maisemiin ja esittelee paikallista kulttuuria myös metallibändien osalta.
Posted by Inferno on Friday, October 16, 2015

My friends in Metallväktarna i radio Vega is writing about Birgit's Garden in Swedish. Lasse calls the book "coffee...
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Sunday, October 18, 2015

Röddin (Hanna Vang) made an interview with me after the book launch at G! Dear Teitur said heart-warming words :) Thank you both. And all of you who were there with me <3
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Monday, July 20, 2015

Birgit's Garden photo series is featured on LensCulture. Oh how lovely :) #birgitsgarden
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Me and Pia Pettersson made an article about the Faroe Islands in SVF-magasinet (in swedish) :)
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Saturday, January 9, 2016

Niels Uni writes about Friday's book launch <3
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Sunday, July 12, 2015

A photo I made of my friend Gyða Hrund Þorvaldsdóttir from Angist is featured in an article in The Reykjavik Grapevine :)Check it out!
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Friday, January 8, 2016

Birgit's Garden photo book // Book Fairs & Festivals

Book launches are over, the exhibition in Helsinki is over, almost everyone who bought Birgit's Garden in the crowd...
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Me and Tiina Itkonen are sharing a table at the Finnish Photographic Museum's photo book fair on Saturday.It is free...
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Birgit's Garden is among the books from Faroe Islands presented by FarLit at the Frankfurt Book Fair – oh joy!On the top shelf on the left under title "FarLit" :)
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Saturday, October 17, 2015

Prepared for the presentation of Birgit's Garden @ artArctica Festival 18.00. #birgitsgarden

A photo posted by Eija Mäkivuoti (@emakivuoti) on Feb 12, 2016 at 7:32am PST

Birgit's Garden at the book fair in the Finnish Photographic Museum at Cable Factory. #birgitsgarden

A photo posted by Eija Mäkivuoti (@emakivuoti) on Dec 12, 2015 at 2:37am PST

FarLit is at Gothenburg Book Fair (Bokmässan Göteborg) 24-27 September and Birgit's Garden is one of Sprotin's books there :) Have a good and succesful fair, Urd and FarLit.
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Thursday, September 24, 2015

Soon artArctica-festival!
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Sunday, February 7, 2016

Next week me, Mariann Hansen and Benjamin Petersen will be participating at the artArctica festival (11.-13.2.2016) here...
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Thursday, February 4, 2016

Birgit's Garden photo book // Photo Book Awards & Competitions

Highlights presented from the Photo Independent Art Fair in Los Angeles last April. Glimpses of Birgit's Garden also in the Photo Salon. ;) Our 0.5 seconds of "fame" around 2:36 :)

Birgit's Garden photobook arrived to LA for Photo Independant's Photobook competition 2016. #birgitsgarden #photobook #faroeislands Photo Independent Art Fair
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Birgit's Garden entered the Photo Independent's Photo Book Competition 2016.

Birgit's Garden was one of the winners at Photo Independent's 2016 PhotoBook Competition. It will be on display and sold...
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Monday, April 11, 2016

Birgit's Garden was one of winners in the Photo Independent's Photo Book Competition 2016.

Competitions, competitions - taking part in LensCulture's Portrait Awards with some portraits from Birgit's Garden.
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Monday, March 7, 2016

A series of portraits from Birgit's Garden entered the Lens Culture Portrait Awards 2016.

The Photo Book "Birgit's Garden" by Finnish photographer Eija Mäkivuoti was one of the winners at Photo Independent's...
Posted by FarLit on Monday, April 11, 2016

@EijaM We can't wait to see your book, thanks for entering!
— Aperture Foundation (@aperturefnd) September 2, 2015

Birgit's Garden entered the Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation Photo Book Awards (in category First Photo Book). It did not win, but is now a part of Aperture Foundation's photo book collection.

Gudmar, Gøtumaður, Faroe Islands. Gudmar likes to tell stories. Today he told me about Tróndur, the Faroese pagan...
Posted by Eija Mäkivuoti Photography on Monday, January 26, 2015

First photo from Birgit's Garden photo book to enter LensCulture's Portrait Awards 2015. It was among the highest rating photos according to LensCulture, but did not win.

Birgit's Garden photo book // Photo Book Giveaways

We're holding a giveaway to celebrate the release of #PHOTOGRAPHY Magazine Issue 14Like and share this post to win a...
Posted by #photography on Saturday, September 26, 2015

© Eija Mäkivuoti: Birgit's Garden, book cover, 2015. BIRGIT’S GARDEN, BIRGITIN PUUTARHA, BIRGITS TRÄDGÅRD, HAVIN HJÁ BIRGITMy Wondrous Journeys to the Faroe Islands, Ihmeelliset matkani Färsaarille, Mina märkliga resor till Färöarna, Mínar undu… — © Eija Mäkivuoti: Birgit's Garden, book cover, 2015.

BIRGIT’S GARDEN, BIRGITIN PUUTARHA, BIRGITS TRÄDGÅRD, HAVIN HJÁ BIRGIT

*My Wondrous Journeys to the Faroe Islands, Ihmeelliset matkani Färsaarille, Mina märkliga resor till Färöarna, Mínar undursomu ferðir til Føroyar*
*A Nordic photo book about the Faroe Islands by Eija Mäkivuoti.*