OUR PLACE "the first official World Heritage Photographic databank" is a worldwide photographic project committed to presenting the wonder and significance of the planet’s most important Cultural and Natural World Heritage sites to a global audience, through great visual images in partnership with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. The project is building an exclusive archive of photographs taken especially for the OUR PLACE Collection by a team of international photographers, and it is publishing a series of high quality photographic books and organizing photographic exhibitions and other World Heritage focused promotional activities.

The sites selected by the OUR PLACE project as warranting UNESCO World Heritage status, are a precious global resource that needs to be protected and preserved for future generations. Like all resources, unless carefully managed, these unique sites can be damaged, badly exploited or even lost forever. We at OUR PLACE believe that if people are made aware of the World's Heritage, then they will be able to care about the World's Heritage.

Assigned with the Our Place project in Finland, I had been documenting the city of Rauma, and the Fortress of Suomenlinna with the range of Panasonic Lumix digital cameras.-- Oriol Casanovas

«Situated on the Gulf of Botnia, Rauma is one of the oldest harbours in Finland. Built around a Franciscan monastery, where the mid-15th-century Holy Cross Church still stands, it is an outstanding example of an old Nordic city constructed in wood. Although ravaged by fire in the late 17th century, it has preserved its ancient vernacular architectural heritage.»

«Built in the second half of the 18th century by Sweden on a group of islands located at the entrance of Helsinki's harbour, this fortress is an especially interesting example of European military architecture of the time.»