Nina & Mökö
It's been two weeks since my latest encounter with a stranger.
Today I was lucky to run into another lovely stranger, Nina 26y/o, and her 11 months old dog, Mökö.
They were walking around my favourite bay in town in my opposite direction.
I approached her from a short distance by asking in Finnish what was the matter with her dog.
She detected instantly my accent, haha, and answered in English.
Nina wanted to hear a bit more about my photo project-- obviously it hasn't been too flowing lately due to that nasty Corona virus-- I briefed her and she agreed to participate.
Nina has graduated a couple of years ago and is working for the time being in an IT company.
We talked about the situation in the USA, mainly racism, and when I asked her for a message Nina said:
"Believe in the good in people!"
I sure want to believe and to hope that racism will be uprooted once and for all and that the black people in America will have justice.
"A riot is the language of the unheard", Dr Martin Luther King said in 1966. More than five decades have passed since and still America has failed to heard them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0BWXjJv5s
Nina's advice to her younger self: " Be proud of yourself!"
In her free time she likes to practice yoga and sports.
Needless to say that Mökö is her biggest hobby :-)
This is my 815th submission to The Human Family group.
Visit the group here to see more portraits and stories: The Human Family
Nina & Mökö
It's been two weeks since my latest encounter with a stranger.
Today I was lucky to run into another lovely stranger, Nina 26y/o, and her 11 months old dog, Mökö.
They were walking around my favourite bay in town in my opposite direction.
I approached her from a short distance by asking in Finnish what was the matter with her dog.
She detected instantly my accent, haha, and answered in English.
Nina wanted to hear a bit more about my photo project-- obviously it hasn't been too flowing lately due to that nasty Corona virus-- I briefed her and she agreed to participate.
Nina has graduated a couple of years ago and is working for the time being in an IT company.
We talked about the situation in the USA, mainly racism, and when I asked her for a message Nina said:
"Believe in the good in people!"
I sure want to believe and to hope that racism will be uprooted once and for all and that the black people in America will have justice.
"A riot is the language of the unheard", Dr Martin Luther King said in 1966. More than five decades have passed since and still America has failed to heard them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0BWXjJv5s
Nina's advice to her younger self: " Be proud of yourself!"
In her free time she likes to practice yoga and sports.
Needless to say that Mökö is her biggest hobby :-)
This is my 815th submission to The Human Family group.
Visit the group here to see more portraits and stories: The Human Family