Kalle 9/1988 (May ‘88)
Legendary Finnish erotic photographer and video director Kullervo Koivisto (born in 1950 as Heikki Mattinen) has his first-ever exhibition, called Oman elämänsä stuntti (“The stuntman of his own life”), at Helsinki’s Brande Arts gallery (Pitkänsillanranta 3), 22 - 26 August 2011.
Kullervo Koivisto’s career as a photographer of erotic and pornographic images started in the 1980s for such Finnish men’s magazines as Kalle and Jallu. Outside porn, he also photographed for such magazines as Hymy and Nykyposti. In the 1980s also American Penthouse published Koivisto’s erotic fantasy photography. As a director of adult videos, Kullervo Koivisto’s most ambitious work is probably the erotic fantasy feature Uivelot (“The Magic Birds”) of 2008.
Links in Finnish:
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullervo_Koivisto
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uivelot_%28elokuva%29
Official Kullervo Koivisto site:
YouTube:
Kata Kärkkäinen (born 27 October 1968) is one of the few Finnish people to have appeared in American Playboy magazine. (Wikipedia lists as othersTiina Virenius a.k.a. Gina Goldberg, May 1981, and the celebrity violin player Linda Lampenius a.k.a. Linda Brava, April 1998.)
Kata Kärkkäinen was seen as the Playmate of The Month on Playboy’s December 1988 issue, thus becoming a celebrity figure also in her native Finland. Alongside her modelling career, she also briefly appeared as a record singer, releasing in 1989 - 1991 some singles and one album, Your Love (1989).
Furthermore, she has worked as an actor (albeit in very small roles), columnist, TV and radio screenwriter, also being an author of six novels. From 2010 onwards she has been known as Katariina Souri.
