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Shoja Lak
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Shoja Lak is a Finland based photojournalist. He lives in Turku, Finland and works globally.
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Currently most of the work is done at the customer's location, but a mobile photo studio is available to be set on customers' location of choice. In addition to studio and portfolio work, Shoja covers traditional photojournalism as well as travel and documentary photography.
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In 2021 Shoja published a book "Faces of Turku" a photo book about People.
The familiar faces you have met in the streets of Turku, but haven’t seen them at their work, home or a place of interest. The book is available at the online store.
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Shoja studied Advertising photography in Denmark. After several years of working as a studio and fashion photographer he steered his career towards photojournalism.
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Shoja graduated from The London School of Music & Media with a BA (Hons) in Photography & New Media Journalism and has completed an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts London.
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He works as a freelance photographer for both Finnish and International, mainly English, Newspapers as well as for international photography agencies. Shoja's images have appeared in news publications worldwide.
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Shoja's portfolio contain both new stories and selection of stock images from his extensive library. All images are available for purchase for publication or art prints.