Photographs in the art collection of Morrison Hotel Gallery
(In this photo Ville Valo/HIM)
"When I started photography during my teen age years over 20 years ago my biggest dream was to get some of my works in this gallery."
“Working with Ville has been an absolute pleasure, and his exhibit at the Morrison Hotel Gallery was one of the most successful shows in 2017.”
-Richard Horowitz, co-founder of Morrison Hotel Gallery (Morrison Hotel Gallery® is the world leader in fine art music photography representing 125 of the most highly acclaimed music photographers)
Secretary-General portrayed on the day of
The Farewell Celebration for His Excellency.
Assignment by the United Nations.
"I was there working in cooperation with painter Rauli Mård who hand-coloured my portraits.
This art piece was given to the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and few weeks after the event he sent a letter where he was personally thanking us for the portrait."
(GUNS N' ROSES)
Los Angeles CA
"Guns N' Roses used to be my very favourite bands when I was kid so shooting Slash has been one of the best moments in my career. I've had one on one photo shoot with him twice. And I've shot his live shows twice. One of those live shots was for his album cover Slash: Live in Manchester. In addition to that cover the management has ordered my photographs for t-shirts and other merchandise usage.”
(LINKIN PARK)
Long Beach CA
(AEROSMITH)
New York NY
United Nations' assignment to portray Steven Tyler
on the day he recieved UN's 2016 Humanitarian Award
The picture is in the art collection of Vantaa Art Museum
Helsinki FIN
"But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart... I've had this quote from Antoine de Saint-Exyperu's Little Prince in my Facebook's 'Favorite Quotes' for many years but I tend forget the meaning of it. The photo session with Andrea Bocelli reminded how true it is.
I'm grateful I got to spend even the time of a short photo shoot with this warm hearted person who can so obviously see more than the most artists I work with. Just look at him."
Los Angeles CA 2018
(BAD RELIGION)
Los Angeles CA
"We did this shoot on the rooftop of my home studio Laurel Canyon up in Hollywood Hills"
(LINKIN PARK)
Long Beach CA
(GOOD CHARLOTTE)
Philadelphia PA
Los Angeles CA
El Mirage CA
London UK
Bullet For My Valentine: Don't Need You -music video directed by Ville Juurikkala
"I'm very happy how the video came out and it has had quite good viewing numbers too - on the day it came out it reached 1 million views in 24 hours."
Helsinki FIN
Montreal CAN
Advertising photos & videos for Nightwish since 2005
"Nightwish is good example how rock photography can be advertising photography with big production when band is on a certain level. I've done official album photographs for 3 Nightwish-albums within last 12 years. We've shootings in various locations pretty much all over the world (Europe, North-America, and South-America).
This one is from Canada where we shot their Imaginaerum-album photos in 2011."
(HANOI ROCKS)
Los Angeles CA
"One of my favorite shots with him. I've shot the most official pictures for Michael Monroe & Hanoi Rocks during the past 12 years. But this was actually from one of our unofficial sessions we did when I was living in Los Angeles 2016”
(HANOI ROCKS)
London UK
"I've shot the most official pictures for Michael Monroe & Hanoi Rocks during the past 12 years. This one was from the album shoot for Blackout States in London & Brighton UK 2015"
Palm Springs CA
Awarded in most significant advertising competitions in Finland:
Kultajyvä 2007 & Vuoden huiput 2007
Awarded in most significant advertising competitions in Finland:
Kultajyvä 2007 & Vuoden huiput 2007
"This shot was for The Snow Queen (2012). It's been one of the biggest productions in Finland's National Opera & Ballet.
In this shoot I was working in cooperation with an amazing lighting and set designer Mikki Kunttu"
"This was my very first work for the grocery chain Lidl and it was very nice series of shoots. The big outdoor campaign was well displayed all over Finland in the fall 2018."
"I've done dozens of shoots for Kalevala Jewelry & Lapponia since 2006. This was very special session when we shot the Lapponia's legendary Star Wars -jewelry Planetoid Valleys"
for NOKIAN TYRES
Advertising photography for Nokian Tyres / McCann
Formula One World Champion Mika Häkkinen photographed in Palm Springs CA
for ROOSANAUHA
Advertising photography for Roosa nauha (Pink Ribbon)
The Dudesons photographed in Helsinki FIN & Los Angeles CA 2017
for KALEVALA JEWELRY
"These portraits of Floor Jansen (Nightwish) must be biggest prints ever made from my photographs. They did 20 meter high outdoor advertising prints from these pictures."
Helsinki FIN
Andrea Bocelli with his daughter Virginia portrayed in Helsinki FIN
"Like father, like daughter... This is one of my very favorite behind the stage -photographs.
I was doing some other photography for Andrea Bocelli when his wife Veronica asked me to take a picture of their daughter Virginia who was on the side of the stage. First Virginia was drawing on a paper and that was difficult to make interesting in a photograph. So I decided to wait and suddenly during the very last notes she started 'imitating' her dad. I realized that this was the shot.
Many times the best of my works are coming originally from ideas by other people. My job is just to capture those ideas as best I can. This time I'm very happy how the capture came out."
Los Angeles CA
Karelia FIN
Helsinki FIN
"Nightwish is good example how rock photography can be advertising photography with big production when band is on a certain level. I've done all the official photographs for Nightwish within last 11 years and we've been working together in many locations around the world (Europe, North-America and South-America) and many times with a big crew (5-10 people all in all). This band and the whole management team around them are just amazing people to work with. I'm believe that's one of the reasons why they've done so well. I've also shot one documentary film and one photo book for them."
(HANOI ROCKS)
Turku FIN
“Although most shoots with Michael have been official advertising my personal favorite has been this we did at his home in Turku 2013. This was with no real assignment but just for fun. This shot has become my personal favorite.”
Šiauliai LU
"Dark Passion Play was the first time when I shot the official pictures for a Nightwish album. Many people think that rock photography is done with small production. But this was big production for any advertising photography. We had 5 days shooting in 3 different cities: Helsinki FIN, Vilnius LU, and Šiauliai LU.
And now some people must be wondering about why I’ve chosen this picture. Why I didn’t choose one of those that we did with big productions? The reason is very simple: personally I think this one is better. I think that real feelings are always stronger than any production value money can buy."
VICTOR DA SILVA
Helsinki FIN
VICTOR DA SILVA
Helsinki FIN
London UK
Los Angeles CA
El Mirage CA
Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles CA
Helsinki FIN
(GUNS N' ROSES)
The Roxy Theater
"This is from the video I directed for MGT & Ville Valo - Knowing Me Knowing You. We did the video with very small crew but it came out one of the most special works I've ever done. I feel that Valo just brought some exceptional magic with him for this shoot! I really recommend checking out this video since I think it's the best one I've done."
Some photographs from this shoot are in the art collection of Vantaa Art Museum
for Kalevala Jewelry 2016
for Kalevala Jewelry 2013
for Kalevala Jewelry 2011
for Kalevala Jewelry 2007
for Kalevala Jewelry 2006
"This was my very first work for the grocery chain Lidl and it was very nice series of shoots. The big outdoor campaign was well displayed all over Finland in the fall 2018."
"This was my very first work for the grocery chain Lidl and it was very nice series of shoots. The big outdoor campaign was well displayed all over Finland in the fall 2018."
"This was my very first work for the grocery chain Lidl and it was very nice series of shoots. The big outdoor campaign was well displayed all over Finland in the fall 2018."
"I've been working with Apocalyptica for over 10 years. I shot this photograph when I was doing this video as advertisment for their 20 year anniversary album & tour.
We've also done one photo book together."
This picture is in the Vantaa Art Museum's art collection.
Popgasm
"I've worked with Sunrise Avenue since we had photo shoot their debut album in 2005. We've done over dozen shoots for their album covers and promo. This is one of my favorite album covers of them."
Route 69
"This cover picture is in the art collection of Vantaa Art Museum. In 2016 It was their main picture for advertising (and profile picture on social media pages etc.) and it was displayed right at the entrence of the museum. 2016 was the 10 year anniversary for the The 69 Eyes: Route 69 -photo book"
Dark Passion Gallery
Juurikkala did the graphic design for this book also.
Photobook
Juurikkala did the graphic design for this book also.
with SHOTPAINT
Assignment by the United Nations
"I did this art piece together with an amazing painter Rauli Mård who hand-coloured this portrait. My original portrait without the colouring is in HERE.
And few weeks later the former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a letter where he was personally thanking us for this portrait."
with SHOTPAINT
I did this shotpaint -art piece with an amazing painter Rauli Mård who coloured this portrait. My original portrait without the colouring is in HERE."
The picture is in the art collection of Vantaa Art Museum
FINLAND
FINLAND
FINLAND
Same time my personal life was getting too crazy and I had to take some personal time out at the country side. This picture was taken during that time. I think there's some very strong emotions in it. After few months of the peaceful life I felt I would be ready to move on.
And then the things started happening even though I wasn’t even doing anything. The Good Charlotte came to Finland with their crew that included Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, and bihan media fuzz around them. The singer Joel Madden told me that he found my photo book ’The 69 Eyes: Route 69’ as one of his favourite art pieces in the world. He invited me on tour with the band straight from that spot. And very soon after that I was living in Los Angeles."
CALIFORNIA
But as expected after few months I had so much real work I had to move closer to Hollywood so that I didn't have to spend several hours a day in my car. My friends in the beach cities said to me: 'Ville, Hollywood kills you!’ I told them I'll by fine and I moved to Hollywood Hills. Ok it didn't kill me in the end but it wasn't far."
CALIFORNIA
FINLAND
SPAIN
FINLAND
2010-2011 were very much a life changing years for me. In the end of 2011 I decided to change my lifestyle completely. I quit drinking and other craziness since I knew they were doing nothing good for my life anymore. I decided to be happy again. That was the end of one era.
In the winter 2012 I met my future wife. In the summer 2012 I took her to walk the same road with me. The whole 1000km again. There was plenty of time to get know with each other. 9 months after our first baby was born. That was a beginning of a new era."
FINLAND
"Knowing Me Knowing You"
Big Bear Lake CA / Helsinki FIN 2016
"I did this video with a very small crew but it came out one of the best works I've ever done. There's something very strong in the simple things."
"I don't have that many Finnish video in here but this one is very special. I think this is the most simple yet most interesting video I've done.
We shot the whole video with one take and the singer really gave it all for this. Before this take he ran over 10km to get to the feeling where you’ve just given it all (that what the lyrics are pretty much about). After that all is left is vulnerable yet charismatic persona. What’s more interesting than that?"
"Ballad of Lower East Side"
People's Choice Winner at the Oulu Music Video Festival 2013
New York NY / Helsinki FIN 2013