’Click’ – Objects into Images

DaisyPensioners’ objects were photographed in the Museum Centre’s studio, both for archival purposes and for the coming exhibition. We assisted photographer Aleks Talve with preparing the objects for being photographed. Here you can see some photos that were taken at the time.

Aleks is attaching colour and greyscale targets onto the wall. This way the right tones of colour for the objects can be recalled during the editing process. This image features a Vietnamese national outfit which includes trousers with wide legs, and a long-hemmed top.

Information about the objects presented in this blog post have come from the volunteers themselves. This Vietnamese hat is worn by women. The ribbon may be changed according to the colour of one’s outfit. In the country people wear the hat on the rice fields, and female high school students wear it together with their school uniform, protecting the wearer from the rain and the sun. Against light, one can detect patterns on the inside of the hat. This one is decorated with an image of a famous pagoda. The hat is handcrafted from leaves, and the thinner and lighter the leaves are, the more valuable the hat is.

This is a national outfit for an Iranian boy, similar to adult men’s outfit. This one is worn by Kurdish people in Iran and Iraq, and they vary a little in different cities. The outfit consists of a shirt, trousers, a cloth belt, and a vest made of camel’s wool. It is traditionally worn by shepherds, the wide shoulders making him look bigger and more threatening to the animals.


The outfit is worn together with a pair of Kalash shoes, handmade by women. The sole is made of leather, wood, and sheep’s intestine. The rest of the shoe is crocheted out of rug yarn.

These spoons are from Tartu, Estonia. The small one is used as a sugar spoon and the larger for salad. The spiral-stemmed spoons have been in the family for three generations.

These Cambodian dress fabrics are made of raw silk. The blue fabric has been embroidered with silver-coloured thread. The cloth is several metres long, and it is worn by draping and pleating it appropriately. The fabrics go by many different names, including phamokng and chorbat.

These Iraqi jewellery are decorated with pearls and semi-precious stones. The silver ring bears two oval-shaped stones. The green is called feroza, and the red is a yaquut. There are beliefs attached to the stones. Feroza is good for the eyes and eyesight, whereas yaquut brings good fortune, a happy life and a good husband. The owner of the ring got it as a present from her grandmother when she was a child.