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• Helsinki, Finland • Cars are Art. • Automotive photography (graphic design 🤏🏻) • @archivenine.lab
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Renounced as a state.
#automotive #photography #art
#carspective
12 Oct 2025
Automotive photography is still often perceived as a “hobby.” Car owners assume it’s simple — meet up, snap a few shots, and that’s it. As if it’s no harder than taking a picture on your phone, slapping on a filter, and posting it. But beyond the frame lies everything that actually makes a photograph art.
Photographers spend years learning to see light, work with color, and find angles that highlight a car’s lines and character. It’s not just a button on a camera — it’s a vision that takes years to develop.
During the shoot, the picture already exists in the photographer’s mind: composition, mood, and the look it should have after editing. Then come hours, sometimes entire days, at the computer, bringing the photo to the state imagined at the start. From dozens of shots emerges a series where every frame is intentional, not accidental.
Why is wedding photography valued at thousands? Because people understand its meaning: it’s a memory you can never get back. But a car is also part of someone’s story. Today it sits in the garage; tomorrow it could be sold or taken apart. All that remains is the photograph — preserving what was important to you.
Automotive photography is not “a few hours for likes.” It’s work that blends craft and creativity. It’s experience, knowledge, and energy poured into showing your car as it deserves to be seen.
Art should never be free. Automotive photography is a profession. It’s a craft that deserves respect and recognition.
At the end - I’ll let you speak.
#automotivephotography #art #photography #cars #manifest #carculture
22 Aug 2025
Never participate in any
competitions.
This creates an incorrect understanding of oneself,
you are driving yourself into a competitive environment that way, but art is never competitive. All these thoughts:
“He/She’s better than me” “They chose him and not me” and “He takes photos/edits them better than me”. These are all destructive things that lead to burnout 2 times faster.
We are not athletes to show results in a track race.
We are creators who do this primarily for ourselves and self-development,
and there are many more personal reasons why we do this. But there should be no place in this for such thoughts like “HE /SHE IS BETTER”.
Once we reject this, we will look at the work of every other photographer as the art that he makes and we will respect how he does it his own way!
#art #automotive #photography #design #carculture #stance #drift
20 Mar 2024
Or do you? [Last slide]
@jurz4
#porsche #911 #964 #carrera #stanceworks
16 Sep 2026
“Why didn’t anyone photograph my car?”
I’ve been hearing this question more and more lately. Sometimes from owners. Sometimes photographers get screenshots asking where their photos are - even when nobody promised them any.
It made me think about how we treat photographers at events.
Some people expect their car to automatically be photographed. But here’s the thing: You are not entitled to a photo just because you brought your car to an event. A photographer at a meet isn’t a personal photographer for every car. We choose what we shoot. Maybe it’s parked badly. Maybe the light is terrible. Maybe twenty people are around it. Maybe the background doesn’t work. Maybe the car doesn’t catch our eye that day. That’s okay.
Because we’re not just documenting cars. We’re making photographs. An event isn’t a photoshoot. It’s people meeting, talking, laughing, showing what they built and making friends.
The cars bring us together. The people make the event. Photography is one part of that culture.
But we’ve slowly created this expectation that photographers are a free feature of every event. You see us with cameras, so it looks easy: “You’re already here anyway.” “Just take a few photos.” “Do you have anything of my car?”
But a good photograph isn’t pointing a camera at a nice car. It’s the work before and after the shutter: finding the moment, sorting through hundreds of frames, editing and delivering something worth keeping.
Pressing the shutter is the easy part. If you want your car photographed properly, that’s different. That’s a photoshoot: choosing a location, finding the right light, spending time with the car and creating something for you.
And yes - that costs money. Not because we became greedy. Because that is our work.
I’ll still bring my camera and shoot when something catches my eye. But we should stop confusing event coverage with a free personal photoshoot. If I photograph your car at a meet, that’s because I chose to put it in my story of that event. If you want your story told, that’s something we can create together.
A photographer being at an event doesn’t mean you booked one.
06 Sep 2026
I got everything I wanted. So why do I feel like walking away?
For years, I thought I was getting closer to becoming the photographer I wanted to be.
I never dreamed of becoming an event photographer.
I wanted to create.
I wanted to make art around cars. To experiment, develop a style of my own and create images that felt like me.
Events were simply where I found the opportunity to do that.
The media passes, the early access, the freedom to move around venues and closed areas.
Being trusted to photograph some of the best, rare and historical cars in Europe.
All of it gave me a space to experiment, meet people and figure out what I wanted my photography to become.
And somehow, I actually got there.
I got into photography almost by accident — taking photos in Forza until my friends told me to get a camera and try it for real.
A few shoots later, I messaged Lowdaily, a media outlet I had followed since I was 12.
They said yes.
Then came FittedFest, ILB Drivers Club and eventually Ultrace.
Each one pushed me further. I met incredible people, became part of the Finnish automotive scene and, somewhere along the way, found a style of my own.
A style people started recognizing.
I’ll always be grateful to everyone who said yes to me when all I had was ambition and the desire to create something of my own.
But somewhere along the way, the thing that helped me build my photography became the thing defining it.
Almost 90% of my work is now made at events.
And I’m tired.
Not of cars,or photography, not of the people.
I’m tired of constantly feeling like I have to produce.
Of looking at an event through a viewfinder instead of actually being there.
Of thinking “I need more photos” while my friends are having a good time.
And the weirdest part?
I never wanted this to be my destination.
Events were supposed to be a part of the journey.
Somehow, they became the journey itself.
21 Aug 2026
Summer days.
#chevrolet #corvette #automotive #archivenine
30 Jul 2026
[ Entry 002]
There are cars that quietly become part of your own timeline.
Not because you owned them.
Not because you drove them.
But because they kept appearing throughout different chapters of your life.
I first photographed this RX-7 years ago. Back then it was black. Later it wore a different set of wheels. Eventually it became the white version you see here.
For a long time, I thought I was documenting the evolution of a car.
Looking back now, I don’t think that’s what these photographs were ever about.
Every time I met it, my photographs changed. Not because the car had become more beautiful, but because I had become better at understanding what I was actually looking at.
When you first pick up a camera, you photograph shapes.
Then you start photographing light.
If you stay with it long enough, you eventually begin photographing something that can’t be measured.
A feeling.
The owner never wanted this car to be remembered because of its colour or the wheels it wore. Those things changed, and they always will.
What never changed was the feeling the car carried.
Some cars ask to be admired.
Others ask to be understood.
For years, I believed my job was to make a car look beautiful.
Now I think a photograph succeeds only when it feels the same way the car does.
Not louder.
Not more dramatic.
Just honest.
Looking through these photographs today, I don’t really see three different versions of the same RX-7.
I see three different moments in my own life.
The car became an unexpected reference point. Every few years I’d meet it again, and without realizing it, I’d leave with another photograph that said a little less about the car and a little more about the person standing behind the camera.
Maybe that’s what an archive really is.
Not a collection of machines.
Not a record of specifications.
Just proof that time moves quietly, while we’re too busy looking somewhere else.
And sometimes, all it takes is seeing the same car again to realize how much you’ve changed.
#A9 #archivenine #A9photo #A9notes
Shots: @renouncedfilms
22 Jul 2026
You never know how much joy a small, classic car event can bring — just by being there, seeing how people treat their cars and witnessing the different ways they preserve automotive culture.
What struck me the most was seeing how the older generation approaches this culture. The way they talk about cars in person, exchange stories, ideas and experiences, and simply enjoy their time together, all connected by the same passion.
It was genuinely special to witness. I rarely see this kind of connection at more modern events. There is something different about the way these people experience car culture — something built on decades of memories, experiences and genuine passion.
And honestly, there is something truly precious about being able to witness that.
Thanks to @mantymaki and @9xxgarage for chance to see it.
#automotive #photography #carculture #classiccars
19 Jul 2026
The more I think about it, the more I realize that the greatest thing photography has given me isn’t the photos—it’s the people.
Some of them were only part of my life for ten minutes. Others have been around for years. But every single one of them left something behind. A piece of my vision, the way I think, and the way I create has been shaped by every conversation, every meeting, and every unexpected connection photography has brought into my life.
Every year, Ultrace reminds me of that. We come for the cars, but we come back for the people. For the hugs and handshakes after a year apart. For the endless conversations, the new friendships, and that feeling of being surrounded by people who simply get you. It’s an energy that no photo or video could ever truly capture—you have to experience it for yourself.
Thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey. Even if we only met once. Sometimes a single conversation is enough to change the way someone sees the world forever.
(Can’t tag everyone, but those who know this post is about them will feel it.)
#automotive #photography #cars #art #carspective
04 Jul 2026
[M]i[X-5] to [R]emi[X-7]
The guy behind this car has always been an ambassador of yellow.
Funny enough, his previous build was one of the first cars I ever photographed — and probably the reason I’m doing this today.
Different car, same energy. So many similarities, so many flashbacks. I’ve photographed his builds countless times over the years, and somehow every shoot still feels special.
#mazda #rx7 #automotive #carlifeunitesbest #yellow
19 Jun 2026
Yellow car that my friend drives.
#mazda #rx7 #yellow #club #rx7fb
18 Jun 2026
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