Based on Truth brings together Tuukka Kaila’s photographic work from the context of independent publishing and artist zine culture.

Rather than presenting a polished retrospective, the book follows a more direct and informal logic, shaped by observation, movement, and the immediacy of printed images.

Kaila’s photographs move through skateboarding culture, urban surroundings, young people, and everyday situations encountered in different places. The work extends beyond skate photography alone, opening into a broader view of social spaces, gestures, surfaces, and moments of daily life. Black-and-white and colour images appear alongside one another, giving the sequence a varied photographic register.

What defines the book is the way it gathers these images into a visual flow. The photographs do not rely on a single narrative, but build meaning through proximity and sequence. Scenes of movement, leisure, city space, and informal social life form a loose photographic field, where the emphasis lies less on explanation than on attentive looking.

As an artist zine, the work belongs to a tradition of self-published photographic books in which the printed object is part of the artistic statement. Kaila uses the book form as a way to circulate images outside a conventional gallery or monograph context. The result is a concise photo-based work that connects documentary observation, youth culture, and independent publishing.