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Winner Open Call Nordic Village Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe

Heidi Kirjavainen, Finland. “An Attempt to Tame the Wild”

Our environment is contaminated by human touch. We are haunted by sleepless nights that result from technology around us: light pollution, TV and mobile devices showing us crises happening 24/7 around the world, forest fires, drought, wars… Not to forget human itself, the mind and body try to thrive in an environment filled with rush and noise. In places we consider nature, the wild, we cannot actually find it. Forests are grounds for tree farming. Seas, lakes and rivers are so polluted that they are chemically closer to something other than water. Humans are like hamsters running helplessly on their wheels. From womb to grave, we perform our lives. We are embarrassed by our shortcomings, no matter how sincere they would be. We are afraid of deer. Walking barefoot outside is either impossible or disgusting for us. We are estranged from nature. Kirjavainen attempt to find the wild in our environment and promote the importance of saving little pieces of it that still exist. Her photographs express our greediness, ignorance, and disrespect for the essence of life, for freedom. We aim to control, but eventually fail anyway. The wild, the free, seems to take over anyhow. We lack the understanding of belonging and harmony. We are not detached - we are attached, linked together. We have adopted a false idea of freedom. We think freedom is to do whatever we like as individuals. Without constraints, we feel entitled to take advantage of nature and other people around us. But selfishness is not equivalent to freedom. It is only freedom for one - but a prison for others. True freedom - is seeing the forest for the trees. It is not being ignorant and giving up immediately when encountering something difficult. It is - seeing the bigger picture for the details.

Heidi Kirjavainen (b. 1991) is a visual artist and a photographer who works between Belgium and Finland.

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Join a public lecture with Belgium photographer an

Join a public lecture with Belgium photographer and arts educator Carine Van Gerven in Annantalo Arts Centre on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 from 16:00 – 19:00. The public lecture is focused on the youth (15-25 years) who want to learn more about photography, the practice, and symbols in photography and conceptual projects. The public lecture is organised by Helsinki Photo Festival and part of its educational programme.

Carine will use examples from her own photography and other lectures she has undertaken during the years. Participants will require a mobile or a tablet for the demonstrations.

This workshop is limited to 50 participants due to the size of the workshop space. Register now and reserve your spot: https://helsinkiphotofestival.typeform.com/to/Lcs9g3y4

Date: 13.09.2022
Time: 16:00 – 19:00. Admission free.
Location: Auditorium, Annantalo Arts Centre, Annankatu 30, 00100 Helsinki

Biography:
Carine Van Gerven (b.1966) is a Belgian professional photographer. After her studies in art and painting, she became an art teacher in Overpelt in the Flanders region. She has been working as a professional instructor with the youth on art workshops ever since. In 2016, she co-founded the cultural event Lens op de Mens – Fotofestival Pelt and currently is the president and creative leader of the bi-annual festival.

Besides teaching, Carine has been exhibited in different art centres in Belgium, Serbia and in France such as at Bourbon Lancy and Galerie Paul Janssen. She has published several photography books. She is a member of the National Association for Professional Photographers in Belgium. In her photography, Carine tells today’s stories in a historical outlook with links filled with empathy and symbolism.

Carine Van Gerven has won numerous awards with FEP (Federation of European Photographers) and a bronze award at PX3 in Paris. Twice, Carine was the winner of the Sienna creative awards and received recognition at the Tokyo International Foto awards (TIFA) and at the London international creative competition (LICC). Photo : Carine Van Gerven (@carinevangerven) #helsinkiphotofestival #helphoto22 #helsinki #education #finland #photography

This year’s Nordic Seminar brought together few

This year’s Nordic Seminar brought together few of the most creative minds in Nordic photography and contemporary art world to an exchange of knowledge, methods and talk about activities in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland.

Nordic visual artists and projects from past til now were introduced to an audience keen to learn more how much impact Nordic Photography has on global scale.

Speakers:
Rasmus Stenbakken, curator at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
Pål Henrik Ekern, diversity curator, Preus museum
Pelle Kronestedt, photographer and senior lecturer, operations manager at CFF – Center for Photography
Stefan Bremer, photographer, visual artist and senior lecturer
Rune Eraker, documentary photographer, editor & publisher
Søren Solkær, Photographer
Konsta Punkka, commercial nature photographer, speaker and Nikon Ambassador
Katrin Elvarsdottir photographer & co-director of The Icelandic Photography Festival
Rafael Rybczynski, Artistic Director Helsinki Photo Festival

The event was hosted at Hanaholmen - Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre. Tetra Auditorium. With support of The Cultural Foundation for Sweden and Finland, The Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Foundation, The Finnish-Danish Cultural Foundation and The Icelandic-Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Photography by Sami Mannerheimo.

We are thanking the many participants who came.

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The portfolio review event was fantastic. We are t

The portfolio review event was fantastic. We are thanking all participants and experts for coming to the National Museum in Finland on Sat, September 3rd 2022.

Photograph: Rafael Rybczynski

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Helsinki Photo Festival’s educational highlight

Helsinki Photo Festival’s educational highlight of the year, the annual Nordic seminar with prominent Nordic visual artists, curators, photography teachers, photo editors and publishers will be organised on September 9, 2022.

Confirmed speakers:
Katrin Elvarsdottir (IS) – Photographer and Co-Director – The Icelandic Photo Festival (TIPF)

Pelle Kronstedt (SE) – Photographer and Senior lecturer, Operation Manager CFF – Stockholm

Pål Henrik Ekern (NO) – Diversity Curator, Preusmuseum, Norway’s National Museum of Photography

Rune Ersker (NO) – Documentary photographer and Editor Norwegian Journal of Photography

Rasmus Stenbakken (DK) – Curator, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art

Søren Solkær (DK) – Photographer

Stefan Bremer (FI) – Photographer and Senior lecturer

Konsta Punkka (FI) – Nature Photographer, Nikon Ambassador

Language: English

Program
The event starts with registration at 9.30, seminar program 10-16, incl. lunch and breaks for coffee. Schedule (tbc).

Registration and fees
The registration for on-site attendance ends on Wednesday, 7th of September, 2022.

https://tinyurl.com/2uf4kwuz

Price: 15 euros including seminar, but not lunch or coffee.

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Up next at Helsinki Photo Festival’s educational

Up next at Helsinki Photo Festival’s educational events is the annual Portfolio Reviews with a chance of winning as first prize a solo exhibition.

The event will be held on September, Sat 3rd at Ateljee in The National Museum of Finland, starting at 11:15 am and ending at 17:30 pm. Each review will last 20 minutes added with 5 minutes of change.

Confirmed reviewers are following photography experts:
Curt Richter (US) - Photographer and lecturer
Florence Montmare (SE/US) - Photographer
Carl-Mikael Ström (SE) - Visual artist
Rafael Rybczynki (DK) - Artistic Director Helphoto

Portfolio Reviews are open to photographers of all levels to showcase their work and get professional feedback. All genres are accepted. The event provides space for networking and can lead to exhibitions and much more. Opportunities to get constructive feedback, guidance and advice on career development.

What is expected: All participants are required to bring their photobook dummies, photo folders or prints. Also, can showcase them through their digital devices. The participants are expected to appear face-to-face and be in good health.

What winners will receive: The first prize winner of this year’s Portfolio Review will be granted the honour to be exhibited solo at the Helsinki Photo Festival 2023. The winner and up to three runners-up will be also featured in the festival’s online gallery and social media channels. The highest voted portfolio will also be offered the opportunity to participate in the limited edition print program at www.helphoto.com.

Selection of the winners: During the portfolio review sessions, each reviewer will select the best portfolio in his opinion. The winners will be announced online as well as contacted via mail by Sep 7, 2022.

Portfolio reviews are paid sessions: 35 euros per review/project. Participants can book one review or choose more reviews.

How to enter the contest: Registration at linktr.ee/helsinkiphotofestival portfolio reviews link via Typeform or just scan to QR code and fill out your details and pay for as many reviews as you want to participate with our experts. Registration deadline: September 2nd at 23.59.

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Winner Open Call Nordic Village - Helsinki Photo F

Winner Open Call Nordic Village - Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

Mikkel Hørlyck (mikkelhorlyck), Denmark. “Jørgen, a Mystery”.

As a photographer, Hørlyck does not doubt for a moment that he has had the honor of photographing a legend. Jørgen? He cheated death. Many times. But he didn’t do it alone. Doctors, nurses and guardians were a great help through the years. They saved him again and again. Jørgen Pedersen should have been dead long ago, considering his age, countless diseases and 40 years of drug abuse. He was a scientist of drugs. Freud of the drug environment. Satan’s favorite. A sophisticated mindset and extroverted being. A rich character. Hørlyck loved photographing Jørgen from their very first meeting in 2016 to their last in 2021.

Mikkel Hørlyck (b. 1991) is a freelance photojournalist and visual artist based in Aarhus, Denmark. His projects focus on global issues, social injustice, spirituality and the depth of one’s character. Hørlyck uses photojournalism to investigate the mechanisms of human survival. He approaches his projects with open-minded curiosity and commits himself to be totally engaged in the situations and experiences of those he photographs. His aim is to give a genuine and personal insight into the core of a human crisis.

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Winner Open Call Nordic Village - Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe

Hrafn Jónsson (Krummi) (hrafnjonsson), Iceland. “SkRöLt”.

In reality, we are always limited by something. It is within these limitations that we go about our everyday lives. Each day we attempt to reach an agreement on how we meander within these limitations. Krummi’s limitations are various but by and large stem from his disability. The project SkRöLt is a path he stumbled upon, it is both physical and hypothetical, and on this path, he works within and beyond his limitations. He propels himself forward by negotiating an ever-changing agreement on how and what he is able to photograph. The title of this project translates into “I rattle along”, whichderived from Krummi’s unconventional walking pattern and it is how he refers to his journey.

Hrafn Jónsson (Krummi) (b. 1990, Reykjavik) is an Icelandic photographer who lives and works in Reykjavik. IIn January 2021 he graduated from Ljósmyndaskólinn. By adhering to the seemingly simple and straightforward medium most of us engage with every day, Krummi is able to push himself forward and engage with his environment. He rattles on, maneuvering through the obstacle course of his everyday life with his unconventional walking pattern - a clumsy flaneur. Krummi was a teenager when he became disabled. Through his relationship with the photographic medium he has come to see that whether he is able, less able, more able or disabled, he is always, in some way, able. Krummi has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, most recently at the Icelandic Photo Festival in January 2022 and the Futures Nordic exhibition at the Copenhagen Photo Festival in 2021. In 2021, Krummi was selected as one of five Futures Nordic Talents by the Copenhagen Photo Festival.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

Ligia Popławska (ligiapoplawska), Poland. “Fading Senses”.

What happens if we lose our senses? In times of multispecies extinction and devastating effects caused by climate change, environmental anxiety is a rising problem affecting societies. Solastalgia is a relatively new name describing an emotional distress caused by the loss of ecosystems. It is characterized by a perspective of a fading world, by an experience of the loss of the present. Described as an earth-related state, it reflects the zeitgeist of our time. A perspective of a fading world and the state of fading-away is close to sensory deprivation. Absence of senses, one of the biggest human fears, can lead to intra-mental perception, echolocation and memory flashbacks. Fading Senses is a research project and a photographic essay where Popławska examines how solastalgia affects our mental and emotional health, and researches the implications of the absence of senses on brain mechanisms. Popławska has temporarily lost one of the senses in the past and this deprivation became her intuitive leading guide, which she has applied to her working methods and to the visual language. Turning her research into a speculative narration, she aims to create a mental image of an ungraspable sensation to underline human disconnection from the natural habitat.

Ligia Popławska (b. 1994, Gdańsk, PL) is a visual artist, photographer and art historian who lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work focuses on the topics of environmental change and sensory ecology.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

Zsófia Pályi (zsofiapalyi), Hungary. “Penitents”.

Pilgrimage is a retreat from everyday life, from our home environment where everything reminds us of our chores and jobs. It is one of the most ancient forms of penance and devotion in the Catholic faith. Once a purely religious tradition, it has now become a colorful bustle, a fair, and a fun-filled experience where the sacred mixes with the profane. This series of photographs captures this often contradictory, vanishing, traditional, yet constantly renewing scene in the Carpathian Basin, in Eastern Europe. The documentary snapshots and portraits create a colorful image of the pilgrimage sites frequently visited by Hungarians from inside and outside the borders of Hungary, in Eastern Europe. These festive rituals are indispensable to carry on the identity, beliefs, rich cultural heritage, customs and clothes of these people. Religious kitsch is also one of the most widespread forms of kitsch, as can be seen in the world of fairing. It brings the believer closer to God. Religious sentiment is often expressed in objects with a profane purpose, such as a plastic bottle depicting the Virgin Mary, but we also find products that, in contrast to the traditional ideal of craftsmanship, obey the command of mass production via their simplicity and shallowness. The photographs were made in several places throughout the Carpathian Basin - Andocs, Balassagyarmat, Csatka, Csíksomlyó, Gyöngyös, Vecsés, and Mátraverebély-Szentkút - each of them as a couple stations of this series, which has been expanding for four years now.

Zsófia Pályi (b. 1982) is a photographer based in Budapest, Hungary. She received her BA degree in photography from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest in 2010 and has completed an MA at the Department of Media and Communication and Department of Portuguese Language at ELTE University.

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Winner Open Call Nordic Village - Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

Jonas Tislevoll (jonastislevoll), Norway. “K93-1091”.

K93-1091 is a personal journey back in time. The series is a photographic exploration of family relationships and connections between Tislevoll as an adopted child and the search for his biological mother. Korean adoption began in 1953 as a consequence of the Korean War, and as of today, there are over 200,000 people who have been adopted from South Korea. Korean adoption reached its heights in the late 70s and into the 80s. Unlike the period immediately following the Korean War, when most adopted children were orphans who were abandoned, the majority of the children sent for adoption in this period were born to single mothers from poor and working-class backgrounds. In 1985, 8,760 babies from South Korea were adopted, an average of 24 babies left the country every day. Single mothers and children out of wedlock still struggle to this day with being stigmatized and frozen out of Korean society. Tislevoll came to Norway in 1994 and has often felt that he is different. This has reinforced the feeling of being adopted, which has created an urge to understand his Korean history. Tislevoll has spent much time throughout his life being angry at and blaming his biological mother, but lately he has tried to turn things around. While searching for her, Tislevoll has recently been traveling around South Korea to get an understanding of how things were from her perspective. He has always dreamed of meeting his biological mother one day, and he does not know if he will ever get that opportunity. Tislevoll hopes and believes that their paths will cross each other at some point.

Jonas Yang Tislevoll (b. 1994) was born as Jin Sub Yang in the city of Daegu in South Korea and was given the name of Jonas Yang Tislevoll when he was adopted to Fitjar, a small town in Western Norway.

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Winner Open Call - Nordic Village / Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

Torgrim Halvari (torgrimhalvari), Norway. “Same”.

Same is a project about Sami identity. What is it to be a Sami today? 100 Sami Portraits is a major documentary and photo project made for Tråante 2017. In 2016, Halvari traveled around Norway, Finland and Russia to photograph and interview 100 Sami about their identity. The reason for the project was that Halvari, after many years abroad working with ethnic conflicts, became quite frustrated to come home to Norway and find that the stereotypes about minorities and indigenous people were alive there as well as in the world. As a photographer, Halvari has had several exhibitions where his strength is portraits. He is excellent at telling a bigger story in his work where the photograph communicates with the viewer on several levels. In 2016, Halvari signed a letter of intent with Tana and Varanger Museums Siida, of which the Savio Museum is a part, about touring the exhibition which he was about to produce. The exhibition was first shown in a simplified form in connection with Tråante 2017. Later it was shown during the Varanger Festival in Vadsø in August 2017. A collaboration between Halvari and the Savio Museum started with the idea to tour the exhibition. It took some time before everything was in place, but the exhibition is still just as relevant. In the meantime, Halvari has published a book related to the project. The book Same was launched just before Christmas in 2019.

Torgrim Hermansen Halvari (b. 1965) is a Norwegian photographer and journalist with a master’s degree in documentary photography. He has also studied journalism, social anthropology, sociology, culture, the culture of the north and more. He currently works as an information officer in the Norwegian Officers and Specialists Association, but spends his spare time as a photographer and artist.

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Winner Open Call Nordic Village - Helsinki Photo F

Winner Open Call Nordic Village - Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

Armand Tamboly, Sweden. "Endzeit".

In the ongoing project Endzeit, Tamboly explores how humans interfere with nature, how people solve environmental problems in front of their house doors, and the motivation behind it. Endzeit is the story of a rapidly shrinking glacier in the heart of the Alps in Switzerland. For 150 years, this glacier has been a tourist attraction and therefore supported the regional economy. People living in the region have been heavily dependent on tourism and agricultural income. The locals realized that their future was dependent on the survival of the glacier, as the disappearance of the glacier would cause serious economic consequences. A private company is managing the site of the glacier. The main attraction is an ice cave which has almost completely melted down. People come to visit this ice cave from everywhere in Europe. When the managing company noticed that the cave was melting, they covered it and the surrounding area with heavy white blankets. The blankets are supposed to slow down the melting, but they can not stop it completely. By the means of aerial and abstract documentary imagery, Tamboly invites the viewer to have a vivid experience of the place. The images were taken in 2020 and again in 2021, only 16 months apart. In one particularly grim photograph of the situation, one can see the lake, which did not exist in 2014 when the area was still covered by a glacier.

Armand Tamboly is a visual artist and photographer with a diverse background in photography and design. In 2021, he earned his Master of Fine Arts in Photography from HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University in Sweden. He is interested in psychology and history, and his framework includes environmental, social, and political contemporary subjects.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

MAP6 (@map6collective), United Kingdom. “Finland - The Happiness Project”.

MAP6 is a group of 10 photographers exploring the complex relationship between people and place. Annually, they travel to an agreed destination for a week to form a collective photographic impression of that place through its landscape and people. In 2021 Finland was ranked by the United Nations as the most content nation globally in the World Happiness Report for the fourth time. The report ranks each country based on six key factors: income, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and corruption levels. MAP6’s Finland: The Happiness Project looks at why Finland scores so highly on the UN’s Happiness Index. The collective visited Finland in 2019 and 2020. They discovered that Finland has a strong sense of societal well-being, and a belief in diversity, inclusion and belonging. Finland positively promotes healthier, happier and more fulfilling lives – through architecture, nature mirrored in design, sustainable timber industry, essential sauna culture, the healthy act of walking and being in nature and the link between landscape and national identity. MAP6 discovered a high level of trust within Finnish society, a belief in a close-knit community with excellent infrastructure built on a bedrock of inter-generational trust. Finland believes that a society can provide a fairer, safer, and happier place to live – a society with hope. This project shows that through belief, we can as a society, live healthier, happier and more positive lives.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

Anton Roland Laub (@anton_roland_laub), Romania. “Last Christmas”.

LAST CHRISTMAS (of Ceausescu) examines the judicial discourse and the institutional memory of the Romanian revolution three decades later. Anton visited museums that bear witness to the events of that time and the work investigates constructions of power and the latency of controversy related to injustice and disorientation. Dealing with the fall of the Romanian dictator, three places are at the forefront: the execution site in Târgoviște; Ceausescu’s private house in Bucharest; and Casa Poporului - the never-inaugurated ruler’s palace. How do they look back on us today? All three are traumatized places, silent witnesses of an undead past. In the 80s, there were rumours of a bathroom of pure gold that was supposedly found in Ceaușescu's home. From the empty bathroom, the banality of evil looks back at the viewer. Every year in the 80s around Christmastime, Anton’s father had to register his typewriter and the imprints of each key to submit them to the police, who archived the profiles of every single typewriter in the country. But not at Christmas of 1989. On Dec 22, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were arrested near Târgoviște of all places. This is the city where Dracula, once resided. On Christmas Day, the couple was sentenced to death in a brief show trial. While the overthrow of the other East European dictatorships in 1989 was mostly peaceful, Romania’s revolution ended in a bloodbath. The events of those violent days remain shrouded in mystery and intrigue, leaving the question: was it a people’s uprising or a staged coup d’état? “Perpetrators who have not been called to account remain a threat, like the undead, sucking the blood and thus the life-force of the living, as the vampire myth puts it.“ Lotte Laub.

Born and raised in Bucharest, Anton received an MA degree from the Weißensee Art Academy, Berlin. In his practice, he engages with subversive approaches in decoding reality constructions and phantoms of power.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival + Nordic

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival + Nordic Village 2022. Theme: Believe.

Lisa Lindqvist Liljedahl (@lisalindqvistliljedahl), Sweden. “Food in stores / From my garden”.

In this project, Lisa uses photography to raise questions regarding the way we know food production today. It started with her growing vegetables. She was fascinated by them and she realized that they do not look like the vegetables we buy in stores. She started taking pictures of her harvest and learned about shifting baseline syndrome (SBS) - that is when our perception of things changes and becomes the new normal. “SBS describes a gradual change in the accepted norms for the condition of the natural environment due to a lack of human experience, memory and/or knowledge of its past condition” (M. Soga et al, Shifting baseline syndrome: causes, consequences and implication. 2017). When it comes to the vegetables we eat today, our knowledge and perception of how vegetables look have changed. When we stopped producing our own food to buy it in stores, we lost the knowledge about how a vegetable really looks, growing in the ground and being harvested. Our new perception of vegetables is the image of a vegetable that is available in the store. In her photos, we can see vegetables that come straight from the ground, with all their imperfections. Lisa reflects on the development that in a short time our connection to nature and food production and so much basic knowledge seems to be lost. She thinks about what this will become in the near future. It raises questions like, what happens when only a very small percentage of people have the knowledge to produce food? Lisa needs to believe that food production will change to be more sustainable in the near future.

Lisa Lindqvist Liljedahl is a freelance photographer based in Skåne, Sweden. She has studied photography at Viebäcks Photo School and Fotoskolan Stockholm.

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"Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Th

"Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

Vincenzo Parisi (@enzino.parisi), Italy. “Down on the short road near the causeway”.

This is the story of Rosa and Peppo, two farmers from Southern Italy who live in broad symbiosis with nature. In their small farmhouse in the middle of the mountains of Basilicata, they have created an eco-sustainable, socially healthy, and authentic microcosm where they feel at ease, without, however, entering into fanatical fundamentalism and without the presumption of dictating the way for the rest of the world. With the use of all their food waste, they create their fertilizer, with the reuse of glass used to preserve the food they produce, with the reduced purchase and reuse of plastic and paper packaging, with the reparation of every tool that can be repaired, and using a few essential second-hand technological products, their ecological footprint is almost non-existent. Almost all of their income is used for the renovation of the farmhouse, with the main purpose of leaving behind the fruit of the long sacrifices begun by past generations and carried out by them to their nephews and nieces, them not having been able to have children. Of the discrete abundance of food products they put aside every year, made with natural techniques with very low water consumption, and reusing the seeds of the previous year, part is given to relatives and friends and part is exchanged with neighbors for other food items that they cannot produce themselves. Finding their solution that balances every aspect of life, enjoying the essential, and with the concession of some small luxuries, they have entered tangibly and morally, and before most of the world, entered into the future.

Vincenzo Parisi is an Italian photographer based in Bologna. He went to the photography school Foto Image from 2015 to 2018, where he also attended s Reportage Masterclass taught by the World Press-Winning photographers Fulvio Bugani and Giulio Di Sturco, and the photo-editor Annalisa D'Angelo. His works were previously exhibited in Bologna and Arles.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

Liza Ambrossio (@lizaambrossio), Mexico. “The witch stage”.

“In my memories, I know that I saw on TV the faces of a group of hysterical women. I was still in elementary school. They were mothers from somewhere in northern Mexico. They were choking on words as they sobbed because their daughters disappeared. They were kidnapped and murdered. Those girls were lured by advertisements in the newspapers and on their city streets looking for young, thin, tall, and beautiful women. They all became a catalogue of necrophiliac beauty. Offered to be harassed, humiliated, and raped even after their deaths. While they were recorded on home videos by nationals or foreigners, who chose their victims by a photo in a catalogue and paid their captors large sums to carry out their most repulsive desires.” Liza Ambrossio.

In a world that struggles to let fragility and poetry die, The witch stage is presented as a thermometer of social decomposition and ironizes some principles of psychoanalysis that Sigmund Freud called "phases or faces" within his theory of psychosexual development. These principles are in turn mixed with conspiracy theories, social denunciations, thoughts, prejudices, the misogynistic questioning of the notions and symbols of witchcraft, criminology, traditions, punishments, uses and customs, and a pretend synchronous representation of global feminism that touches different geographical areas. Crossing Mexican, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese imagery, Ambrossio (b.1993) allows herself to explore visual similarities of a story represented so that it seems forbidden. A story that is a pretext for the unwritten right to commit violence against women and the feminine. She leaves non-textual hints of territories and cultures, with no apparent connection beyond their exacerbated telluric belly.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2022. Theme: Believe.

Alfonso de Gregorio (@escapingphotons), Italy. “Retained Reports”

In Retained Reports, De Gregorio questions our relationship with data originating from our private human experiences, gathered and fashioned by surveillance capitalists into prediction products which are sold in behavioral futures markets. He invites us to imagine an alternative economic and social logic. He turned surveillance capitalism's "means of production" against itself by training an AI algorithm to hallucinate portraits of imaginary individuals based on an analysis of the public-domain archive of Costică Acsinte, one of Romania’s most prolific early-20th-century photographers. Many of Acsinte’s fragile glass plates have sustained damages over the years due to heat and moisture. The delicate silver gelatine emulsion has peeled off, and the glass has cracked or splintered. Worn down by time and elements, the portraits in the Acsinte’s archive are allegories of the impermanence of human artifacts. Their counterparts in Retained Reports though, are like personal-data in the hands of the surveillance-industrial complex: permanent artifacts of computational processes and visual antiphrases.

Alfonso de Gregorio (b. 1978) is an Italian artist, globally recognised cybersecurity technologist, and hacker. De Gregorio's artistic work spans image-making, informatics, lectures, and engineering.

The Helsinki Photo Festival (#HelPhoto) is an annual event showcasing photography in the Greater Helsinki area. Between July 7 and October 2, the works of 40 international open call winners are exhibited at The National Museum of Finland and 12 Nordic finalist at the art park at Hanaholmen – kulturcentrum för Sverige och Finland.

www.helsinkiphotofestival.com/

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Austrian Ulrike Koeb (b. 1959, Vorarlberg) is a Vi

Austrian Ulrike Koeb (b. 1959, Vorarlberg) is a Vienna-based food and still life photographer. Her interest in photography is originally sparked by a love of detail and passion for colour, light and style. After her training the Viennese photo studio Liewehr she attended masterclasses in still-life photography by Charles Purvis in Maine and Hans Neleman in New Mexico, USA.

In addition, to her many commercial magazine- and book projects, Koeb’s passion lies in artistic photography. She often creates compositions with food and disposed objects and garbage found (especially from plastic) that she uses to create works for raising awareness on throwaway culture, with no cares about the consequences. Her newest solo exhibition “Reduce, reuse and recycle” will be premiered at Helsinki Photo Festival 22 with support of the Austrian Embassy Helsinki.

Ulrike Koeb’s photographs have appeared in numerous publications and have also featured in exhibitions in Muscat, London, Venice and Budapest.

Solo- and group exhibitions:
1995 – Oman in Platinum Palladium prints, Muscat, Oman
2006 – attic, Hittisau, Austria
2011 – table manners, Gwangju, South Korea
2012 – room 333, Breda, The Netherlands
2016 – arte Laguna Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2016 – photo Vienna MAK, Vienna, Austria
2018 – Vienna design week, Vienna, Austria
2019 – food design, acf Budapest, Hungary
2022 – canvas art fair, Venice, Italy

Bibliography / Publications
Food design XL, Springer Verlag
Fashion and Jewelry 1920-1970, Arnoldsche
Cooking with the power of nature, Brandstaetter
How we eat, Boehlau/Vandenhoeck
Veggie Starts, Brandstaetter

Exhibition opening is August 3 from 16-18 at Marski. Thereafter the exhibition can be visited daily from August 4-September 30,2022 from 9am-21pm. Admission is free. More info will be posted on our website in the helnews section.

www.helsinkiphotofestival.com/helnews

More about the artists, visit her website: www.koeb.at

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Helsinki Photo Festival announces webshop for limi

Helsinki Photo Festival announces webshop for limited edition prints and access to exclusive works of artists exhibited by the festival!

We are now proudly celebrating new arrivals of works by Swedish visual artist Carl-Mikael Ström who is exhibiting as a part of the Nordic Village at Gallery Hanaholmen until October 2nd, 2022. His outstanding exhibition Brightness Hiding (the failure… presents an image fusion technique between photography and painting. "Each work is unique and many are handmade by Ström. We are really proud of this exhibition and happy of having the opportunity for selling the whole exhibition to collectors” says artistic director Rafael Rybczynski.

Webshop: www.helphoto.com

Nordic Village is a visual art talent platform fostered by Helsinki Photo Festival to support emerging Nordic photographers. The platform exhibits visual artists from the countries of the north to a broad audience in Finland and internationally. The platform has now initiated last year a limited edition print program to give Nordic artists access to sell to collectors and fine art lovers around the world. The first edition includes works by Icelandic photographers Maria Kjartans and Ómar Sverrisson, Norwegian photographer Stig Marlon Weston, Swedish-American photographer Florence Montmare, Danish photographers Lisa Pram, Anne Lass, and Finnish photographers Sari Soininen, Tom Olsen and Svante Gullichsen.

The complete limited edition including new signings will be exhibited titled Selected Darlings from August 1- 31, 2022 at Gallery Finlandia at Pikku-Finlandia in downtown Helsinki.

The Limited Edition print program was supported by Nordisk Kulturfond.

Helsinki Photo Festival is a non-profit association created to attract interest and disseminate information on photography and visual culture in Finland and abroad.

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Helsinki Photo Festival turns photographs into a p

Helsinki Photo Festival turns photographs into a part of the cityscape. The annual visual arts festival presents selected works from emerging photographers. The theme of the 2022 festival is Believe – uskoa - tro.

The winning works of Helsinki Photo Festival theme are showcased from Jul 10- Oct 2 on the stone wall surrounding the museum and awarded Portfolio review winner Diane Meyer's solo exhibition in the Summer Yard of the National Museum.

The winner exhibition has been curated by an international jury, who selected the 40 works, now on exhibition, out of over 300 submissions. The works on display on the wall of Museokatu and Töölönkatu can be admired round the clock. The museum courtyard is closed at 6:00 p.m. The exhibition is free of charge.

Open call winner / International / Helsinki Photo Festival 2022
Alfonso de Gregorio / IT
Liza Ambrossio / MX
Vincenzo Parisi / IT
Lisa Lindqvist Liljedahl / SE
Anton Roland Laub / RO
MAP6 Collective / GB
Zsófia Pályi / HU
Ligia Popławska / PL
Ethan Murphy / CA
Maria Feck / DE
Tomasz Kawecki / PL
Aurélie Scouarnec / FR
Eric Zeigler / US
Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo / CO
Cemre Yeşil Gönenli / TR
Alvin Ng / SG
Giacomo d'Orlando / IT
Linda Zhengova / CZ
Hannah Kiviranta / CA
Eckart Bartnik / DE
Dirk Schlottmann / DE
Angelika Kollin / EE
Elena Helfrecht / DE
Tim Smith / CA
Paulo Simão / PT
Forest Kelley / US
Rosa Rodriguez / ES
Mauro De Bettio / IT
Rafael Heygster / DE
Oscar Scott Carl / DK
Lisbeth Luft / DE
Kristina Barker / US
Roger Grasas / ES
Ian Cheibub / BR
Chiara Negrello / IT
Fernando Montiel Klint / MX
Vaste Programme / IT
Line Ørnes Søndergaard / NO
Eva Faché & Jet Pascua / BE & PH
Sergei Stroitelev / RU

Helsinki Photo Festival was created to attract interest and disseminate information on photography and visual culture in Finland and abroad.

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Portfolio Review Winner Diane Meyer brings embroid

Portfolio Review Winner Diane Meyer brings embroidered photography in a solo exhibition from July 10-October 2nd, 22 to the Summer Yard of the National Museum in Helsinki.

Diane Meyer is an interest in the porous nature of memory and the ways it can be disrupted and replaced by images as well the means by which photography transforms history into nostalgic objects that obscure objective understandings of the past. She completed a series of 43 hand-sewn photographs taken along the entire roughly 100 mile path of the former Berlin Wall. Sections of the photographs have been obscured by cross-stitch embroidery sewn directly into the photograph. The embroidery is made to resemble pixels and borrows the visual language of digital imaging in an analog, tactile process. In many images, the embroidered sections represent the exact scale and location of the former Wall offering a pixelated view of what lies behind. In this way, the embroidery appears as a translucent trace in the landscape of something that no longer exists but is a weight on history and memory. By using the embroidery in a way that is reminiscent of pixels, a connection is being made between forgetting and file corruption.
The images were taken in the city center as well as the outskirts of city where Meyer followed the former path of the wall through suburbs and forests.

More info on the artist and project: www.dianemeyer.net

Helsinki Photo Festival’s Portfolio Review enable participating photographers to present their work to international photography experts. They thus benefit from experts’ advice, and for some, obtain real exhibition and/or publication projects. The event is open upon registration to all photographers whatever their photographic practice.

Helsinki Photo Festival Portfolio Review will take place on Saturday 3rd September 2022 at The National Museum, Helsinki. The first prize is a solo exhibition in the forthcoming year's festival edition. More info will be posted soon on our website in the helnews section.

www.helsinkiphotofestival.com/helnews

#helsinkiphotofestival #helphoto22 #portfolioreviews #photography #portfolio #kansallismuseo #helsinki #finland #networking #dianemeyer

The Nordic Village supports emerging and groundbre

The Nordic Village supports emerging and groundbreaking Nordic photographers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Estonia.

For the group and solo exhibitions, the Nordic artists get selected through a jury of photography professionals and curators responsible for the festival’s open call contest. The theme in 2022 is Believe. The Nordic Village expo will be set up in the Art Park of Hanaholmen – Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre. The exhibition is outdoors and 24/7 accessible.

The highlight of the Nordic Village exhibition is a Nordic seminar with established visual artists, gallerists, photography teachers, photo editors and book publishers who will be organised on September 9, 2022.

The Nordic Village is a talent platform fostered by Helsinki Photo Festival to support emerging and groundbreaking Nordic photographers in Finland and internationally. The fifth edition of the festival will take place July 7th-October 2nd, 2022. The exhibition is made possible with the support of the Espoo City and Aktiastiftelsen i Esbo-Grankulla.

Gallery Hanaholmen presents a solo exhibition of Swedish photographer Carl-Mikael Ström.

Open call winner / Nordic Village / Helsinki Photo Festival 2022
Armand Tamboly / SE
Krummi / IS
Torgrim Halvari / NO
Jonas Tislevoll / NO
Mikkel Hørlyck / DK
Heidi Kirjavainen / FI
Pär Johansson / SE
Sami Mannerheimo / FI

Lisa Lindqvist Liljedahl / SE *
Angelika Kollin / EE *
Oscar Scott Carl / DK *
Line Ørnes Søndergaard / NO *

* double winners of international and nordic open call at Helsinki Photo Festival

The Helsinki Photo Festival (#HelPhoto) is an annual event showcasing Nordic and international photography in the Greater Helsinki area.

www.helsinkiphotofestival.com

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Located in northern Helsinki is the most versatile

Located in northern Helsinki is the most versatile sports and cultural complex Tapanila Urheilukeskus. Famed for it’s largest offering of all sorts of indoor sporting opportunities from archery, billiard, climbing, dancing, floor ball, library, music school for kids to yoga it is visited by over a million sport enthusiasts annually. Now for the first time, photography exhibitions are presented during the summertime from July 4-August 21 in the cafeteria and nearby facilities. Helsinki Photo Festival has joined with a popup exhibition with 7 artists from the open call Believe. Other exhibitions include Finnish photographer’s Jussi Hellsten project Sparks Came Out Of The Water and performance images from the great contemporary circus ensemble Race Horse Company.

The exhibiting artists from Helsinki Photo Festival include works from Zsófia Pályi (HU), Lisa Lindqvist Liljedahl (SE), Elena Helfrecht (DE), Fernando Montiel Klint (MX), Vaste Programme (IT), Tomasz Kawecki (PL) and Hannah Kiviranta (CA).

For more info in Finnish:
www.tapanilanurheilu.fi/uutiset/valokuvanayttely

Beware of summer opening hours. Admission free except for Jussi Hellsten.

Tue-Sat 10am-5pm. Exceptionally, Mon 4.7. and Sun 21.8. from 10am to 5 pm.

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We are just Wow!!! Impressions from the second s

We are just Wow!!!

Impressions from the second solo exhibition‘s vernissage of Helsinki Photo Festival 2022 at Stoa Gallery - Cultural Centre Stoa with female Canadian photographer Arianne Clément and her mesmerizing works to “The Art of Aging”.

The festival begins July 7 with outdoor exhibitions at The National Museum of Finland @kansallismuseo and at Hanaholmen - Swedish - Finnish Cultural Centre @hanaholmen and will run til October 2nd with many more exhibitions, artist appearances and educational events.

Inspired by the humanist aspect of photography that underlies the poetic images created by the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Raymond Depardon, Robert Doisneau and Willy Ronis, Arianne Clément @arianne.clement.photography focuses on the emotional and descriptive power that photography can have on the viewer. At the heart of her work are the people (particularly the elderly), who live on the margins of society – often forgotten, sometime abandoned – who are rarely part of the cultural part of cultural and media landscape. With her lens, Arianne Clément highlights their humanity, their beauty and a little bit of their history.

The Art of Aging” in Stoa Gallery from June 28-August 14, 2022. Exhibition is part of the official program of Helsinki Pride 2022 @helsinkipride (27.6.–3.7.2022). Produced by Helsinki Photo Festival. Curated by Rafael Rybczynski.

Exhibition supported by the Canadian Embassy to Finland. This year Canada and Finland celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations. Join in the celebration on social media using hashtag #CANFIN75!
Instagram: @canadafin Twitter: @CanEmbFinland, @AmbCanFinlande

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Arianne Clément “The Art Aging” at Helsinki P

Arianne Clément “The Art Aging” at Helsinki Photo Festival 2022

Inspired by the humanist aspect of photography that underlies the poetic images created by the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Raymond Depardon, Robert Doisneau and Willy Ronis, Arianne Clément @arianne.clement.photography focuses on the emotional and descriptive power that photography can have on the viewer. At the heart of her work are the people (particularly the elderly), who live on the margins of society – often forgotten, sometime abandoned – who are rarely part of the cultural part of cultural and media landscape. With her lens, Arianne Clément highlights their humanity, their beauty and a little bit of their history.

Helsinki Photo Festival presents solo exhibition of Canadian photographer Arianne Clément “The Art of Aging” in Stoa Gallery from June 28-August 14, 2022. Exhibition is part of the official program of Helsinki Pride 2022 (27.6.–3.7.2022). Produced by Helsinki Photo Festival. Curated by Rafael Rybczynski.

Exhibition supported by the Canadian Embassy to Finland. This year Canada and Finland celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations. Join in the celebration on social media using hashtag #CANFIN75!
Instagram: @canadafin Twitter: @CanEmbFinland, @AmbCanFinlande

#photography #photographer #art #blackandwhite #elderly #seniors #love #beautiful #art #artist #photosoftheday #photo #portraits #blackandwhiteportrait #blackandwhiteportraits #CANFIN75 #canada

Images from the opening vernissage of the solo exh

Images from the opening vernissage of the solo exhibition "Brightness Hiding (the failure…" by Swedish photo artist Carl-Mikael Ström on Monday 30.5.2022. The exhibition has been produced in collaboration with Gallery Hanaholmen and Helsinki Photo Festival. Curated by Rafael Rybczynski. "Brightness Hiding (the failure…” you can see daily from 10am-19pm until October 2nd, 2022.

Photography by Jakke Nikkarinen @jakkenikkarinen_photography

All works exhibited including a limited edition series by Carl-Mikael Ström will be on sale at www.helphoto.com

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Welcome to the opening of the Swedish photo artist

Welcome to the opening of the Swedish photo artist Carl-Mikael Ström´s solo exhibition on Monday 30.5.2022 at 16.00.

In Brightness Hiding (the failure… Carl-Mikael Ström challenges the idea that photography is a language and asks the viewer: what can be shown but not said? He wants to depart from the concept of the recognisable and logical and go beyond the boundaries of language to reach a category he has called "possible images." Ström believes there is isomorphic tension between the photograph and the actual object it reflects and that within this tension lies the strength of photography.
The photographs are presented as a visual ladder, aiming to reach the “possible images” within our senses. "I do not talk photography, and I do not talk about photography".

Brightness Hiding (the failure… is Carl-Mikaels Ström's first solo exhibition, the exhibition has been produced in collaboration with Helsinki Photo Festival.

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The 12 Nordic winners for the theme Believe at Hel

The 12 Nordic winners for the theme Believe at Helsinki Photo Festival 2022 are selected now. From July 7-October 2, 2022 all finalists will be showcased outdoors in the Art park at Hanaholmen, Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre in Espoo.

Congratulations to all winners!

Open call winner / Nordic Village / Helsinki Photo Festival 2022

Armand Tamboly / SE
Krummi / IS
Torgrim Halvari / NO
Jonas Tislevoll / NO
Mikkel Hørlyck / DK
Heidi Kirjavainen / FI
Pär Johansson / SE
Sami Mannerheimo / FI

Lisa Lindqvist Liljedahl / SE *
Angelika Kollin / EE *
Oscar Scott Carl / DK *
Line Ørnes Søndergaard / NO *

* double winners of international and nordic open call at Helsinki Photo Festival

The Helsinki Photo Festival (#HelPhoto) is an annual event showcasing Nordic and international photography in the Greater Helsinki area.

www.helsinkiphotofestival.com

#helsinkiphotofestival #photography #festival #photographyexhibition #exhibitionsinfinland #contemporaryart #taide #kunst #artfestivals #helphoto22 #believe #fineartphotography #discoverfinland #espoo
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Believe photography can change the world The 40 i

Believe photography can change the world

The 40 international winners for the theme Believe at Helsinki Photo Festival 2022 are now selected and listed below. All finalists will be showcased in outdoor exhibitions around Greater Helsinki from July 7-October 2, 2022. Many exhibition sites will start at the beginning of the festival while a few will start later. We will give more information about locations and program schedule in the upcoming weeks. The winners for the Nordic Village, a talent platform dedicated to Nordic artists will be published separately in coming days.

Congratulations to all winners!

Open call winner / International / Helsinki Photo Festival 2022

Alfonso de Gregorio / IT
Liza Ambrossio / MX
Vincenzo Parisi / IT
Lisa Lindqvist Liljedahl / SE
Anton Roland Laub / RO
MAP6 Collective / GB
Zsófia Pályi / HU
Ligia Popławska / PL
Ethan Murphy / CA
Maria Feck / DE
Tomasz Kawecki / PL
Aurélie Scouarnec / FR
Eric Zeigler / US
Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo / CO
Cemre Yeşil Gönenli / TR
Alvin Ng / SG
Giacomo d'Orlando / IT
Linda Zhengova / CZ
Hannah Kiviranta / CA
Eckart Bartnik / DE
Dirk Schlottmann / DE
Angelika Kollin / EE
Elena Helfrecht / DE
Tim Smith / CA
Paulo Simão / PT
Forest Kelley / US
Rosa Rodriguez / ES
Mauro De Bettio / IT
Rafael Heygster / DE
Oscar Scott Carl / DK
Lisbeth Luft / DE
Kristina Barker / US
Roger Grasas / ES
Ian Cheibub / BR
Chiara Negrello / IT
Fernando Montiel Klint / MX
Vaste Programme / IT
Line Ørnes Søndergaard / NO
Eva Faché & Jet Pascua / BE & PH
Sergei Stroitelev / RU

#helphoto #finland #helphoto22 #helsinkiphotofestival #helsinki #valokuva #believe #fineart #documentaryphotography #finalists

We are proud to announce 80 shortlisted candidates

We are proud to announce 80 shortlisted candidates who move further into the second round of voting.

The next step for the jury will be to select the best 40 authors, and 10 Nordic artists, whose photos will be curated and exhibited at the festival from July 7-October 2, 2022.

Together with the jury we thank all the participants for their efforts and breathtaking submissions. It was quite a lot of work to review all submissions to decide who will proceed. Those of you who have not made it any further we encourage to apply next year. Our next open call theme we will release December 2022.

The most voted artists and submissions were:
Mauro De Bettio (IT) “Life in Balance”
Maria Fleck (DE) “Madeleine”
Jenna Garrett (US) “This Holy Hill (2017–present)”
Eckart Bartnik (DE) “Relicts”
Hrafn Jónsson (IS) “SkRöLt”
Roger Grasas (ES) “Ha Aretz (the Promised Land)”

List of all shortlisted entrants can be reviewed on our website at helnews:
https://helsinkiphotofestival.com/shortlisted-entrants-believe-2022/

Believe photography can change the world

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Believe photography can change the world! Helsink

Believe photography can change the world!

Helsinki Photo Festival's fifth open call has closed last week and we received 309 artist submissions from 47 countries in 5 continents. Altogether 3841 images exploring the theme “Believe". The jury has started voting now. Stay tuned for updates. Shortlisted to be announced this week!

The Helsinki Photo Festival (#HelPhoto) is an annual event showcasing Nordic and international photography in the Greater Helsinki Area.
www.helsinkiphotofestival.com

#helsinkiphotofestival #photography #believe #fineartphotography #helsinki #opencallartists #finland #fotografi #nordicphotography

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