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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Christian Bobst, Switzerland⁣
@christian_bobst_photography • The Sufi Brotherhoods of Senegal • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo
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In Senegal, 95 percent of Muslims belong to a Sufi Brotherhood, more than in any other Muslim population in the world. For Sufis, peace and tolerance are important values, spirituality and closeness to God are more important than dogmas and strict adherence to religious rules. Senegal has never experienced an attack in this age of international terror in contrast to its neighbouring countries such as Mali or Mauritania. The West African country is regarded as an anchor of stability. This has a lot to do with the trust of the Senegalese people in their religion and their spiritual leaders.

When tribal leaders called for the raising of arms against the French, during colonial times, Cheikh Amadou Bamba Mbacke (1853 - 1928), the founder of the Sufi Brotherhood of the Mourids, taught his numerous followers that the true Jihad is not war by force of arms, but the fight against inner demons. Even today, most Senegalese are fervent supporters of Bamba's pacifist teachings. The Senegalese engage in a strong personality cult around the founders of their four largest Sufi-brotherhoods and their descendents. While saints are a taboo in most Islamic countries, the names and portraits of the founding fathers of the Sufi brotherhoods can be found on the lettering of colourfully painted buses, as posters in shopping centres and textile factories, on almost all taxis. Although Senegal has a secular form of government, Islam is much more than a religion in the country. It is a lifestyle that permeates the entire society. The Sufi Brotherhoods of Senegal photo essay shows how the Sufi Brotherhoods and their religious leaders shape Senegalese society and how they maintain power and wealth, but also peace and stability in the country by relying on a tolerant form of Islam instead of dogmatic rules and oppression.⁣
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Another clip from our media geeks. Enjoy the show

Another clip from our media geeks. Enjoy the show and visit our outdoor exhibitions around Helsinki until September 30th, 2020.

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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Gloria Oyarzabal, Spain @gloria_oyarzabal • Woman Go No’Gree • Exhibited in Karhupuisto⁣⁣
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Empires, by nature, embody and institutionalize difference, both between metropolis/ colony and colonial subjects. Imperial imaginary floods popular culture. Gender categories were a kind of bio-logic “new tradition” that colonialism institutionalized in Yoruba, Igbo and many African cultures. Infantilization of women as part of the Western patriarchal system was also exported with the colonization of the mind, configuring a state of vulnerability, facilitating dependency. In 1987, more than a decade before queer theory, Nigerian writer Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, freeing the subject position of “husband” from its affiliation with men, dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Can a daughter be considered a son? Can a woman take another as a wife, openly complying with the requirements marriage tradition imposes on the groom? ⁣⁣
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Oyèrónkẹ Oyěwùmí, another Nigerian feminist writer (The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses) attributes the biologizing of difference to the primacy of vision in European intellectuality, basing its hierarchies on binary distinctions: Male/ female, white/ black, homosexual/ heterosexual. Stereotypes are anti-truth. Beauty norms are often measured with Eurocentric values, white beauty narratives and ideals of beauty (thinnes, youth) that are strongly racialized. Whiteness is reinforced as the norm, “otherness” becomes something fetish and “exotic”. Erotic, sisterhood, motherhood, marriage, tradition, domestication… all these aspects, with their own lights and shades in each society, should come out on the same level in order to compare. Can we assume social relations in all societies are organized around biological sexual difference? ⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Sasha Maslov, Ukraine @maslovsaslov • Ukrainian Railroad Ladies • Exhibited in Karhupuisto⁣
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Ukrainian Railroad Ladies is a series of portraits of women who work as traffic controllers and safety officers at railroad crossings in Ukraine. These women spend the majority of their long shifts enclosed in the little railway houses built along the tracks specifically for them. The series studies Ukrainian rural and suburban landscapes where the exteriors of these railroad houses play a prominent role. The project depicts the intimate details of interiors of these houses and invites the viewer to meet the Railroad Ladies themselves. Ukrainian Railroad Ladies is also an exploration of Ukrainian mentality, trust and challenge to the existing system, and why this profession still exists in the 21st century, given the almost full automatization of railroad crossings in Ukraine and around the world. It is a study of the anthropological and social aspects of this particular profession and the role and importance of the railroad in Ukraine in general. The country has been consumed by political turmoil: A war in the East and loss of its territory to an aggressive neighbor, never mind the endless corruption and permanently troubled economy. In Ukraine, people pay little attention to the women they see from a train window, standing and most often holding a folded yellow flag (a sign to the train engineer that all is well on the tracks ahead). The yellow flag is a symbolic sign of assurance and trust. Although the country and the world are consumed with much larger issues, the people with folded yellow flags play a big, yet silent role in Ukrainian everyday life. In the storm, it’s often hard to see the lighthouse. Ukrainian Railroad Ladies are that lighthouse. They are a symbol of certain things in this country that don’t change, standing firm in the present as a defiant nod to the past. Unfazed by the passing of trains and time, they are here to stay.⁣
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The winners of the portfolio reviews of Helsinki P

The winners of the portfolio reviews of Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 are:

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David Barreiro (Spain) @david_barreiro_
A Breach of Margins

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Sandro Livio Straube (Switzerland)
Berge bleichen

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Oskar Alvarado (Spain)
Where Fireflies Unfold

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Laura Pannack (United Kingdom)
Baruch

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Sonja Trabandt (Germany)
Uebermorgen Schnee (Tommorrows' Snow)

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Lotta Lemetti (Finland)
Kekta

Congratulations!!

The jury judging all portfolios included the following experts:

Elina Anttila (Director of the National Museum of Finland)
Maria Faarinen @mariaania (Chief Curator at The Finnish Museum of Photography)
Emanuela Mirabelli @emanuela_mirabelli (Photo Editor, Marie Claire Italy)
Rafael Rybczynski @rafugee (Artistic Director of Helsinki Photo Festival)
Stig Marlon Weston @stigmw (Photographer and Director of the CYAN studio collective)
Nita Vera @nitavvera (Photographer & PhD student of Photography at Aalto University)
Marianne Ager (Curator of Photography & Film, Brandts Museum of Art and Visual Culture in Odense, Denmark)
Karin Aringer @karinaringer (Head of Contemporary Art & Design Bukowskis, Sweden)
Alexa Becker @alexa.beckr (Acquisitions Editor for photography and art books for Kehrer Verlag)
Nela Eggenberger @eikonmagazine (Chief Editor at EIKON – International Magazine for Photography & Media Art)
Moritz Neumüller (Barcelona based Curator, Educator and Writer in the field of Photography and New Media)
Naoya Yoshikawa @yoshikawa.naoya (Artists of Photography and Professor at Osaka University of Arts)

The first prize winner of this year's Portfolio Review will be exhibited solo at Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The winner and up to five runners up will be also featured in the festival's online gallery on helsinkiphotofestival.com. The winning portfolio and a few selected images of up to five runners up will be promoted on Helsinki Photo Festival's social media channels, Facebook and Instagram, which can reach up to 5000 virtual followers alone. The highest voted portfolios may be also offered the opportunity to participate in the Helsinki Photo Festival limited edition print program in 2021.

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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Nadja Hallström, Sweden @nadjahallstrom • The Last Wild Horses • Exhibited in Korjaamo⁣ & Valssaamo
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The horse is a universal symbol of freedom. While the majority of Americans value wild horses and want to see them preserved and protected, the Bureau of Land Management who is in charge of all public land, plans to eradicate wild horses and continues to allow intensive commercial livestock grazing on public lands. Chasing such a strong symbol of freedom because of profitable interest becomes a reminder of the distance between reaching the dream of freedom (how it once looked) and the cynicism that often characterizes people’s view on nature today. What happens when we fail to protect the wild animals, when we tame nature into an obedient tool? The hunt for the last wild horses is a prey on a threatened species, like so many before. But also a predatory act on man's dream of being able to live with the wild, to be in harmony with nature instead of being its superior. ⁣
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The pictures featured in the series The Last Wild Horses were taken at a Wild Horse Rescue Center in the US. At the center, people are working to rehabilitate wild horses and teaching them to trust people. In her images, Hallström depicts the people who are rehabilitating these wild horses and who are fighting for their survival. A friend of hers, Diane Delano, started the nonprofit Wild Horse Rescue Center in Florida about 20 years ago. Since then, she and her volunteers have saved hundreds of horses, including also other animals. Once a wild horse has been captured by the Bureau of Land Management, it is illegal to release them into the wild again. Diane's goal is to rehabilitate and tame these horses so that they will be able to trust people and get new loving homes. Diane is currently taking care of 47 horses. Her home is a fantastic place and the animals thrive there. The photographer also visited South Dakota, Utah and Colorado to meet other amazing people who are working in this field. Majority of photographs featured in The Last Wild Horses were taken in 2019. ⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Shirin Abedi, Iran / Germany • May I Have This Dance? • Exhibited in Tähtitorninvuoren Puisto
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In a long red dress, with a small crown in her hair, Mojdeh dances in front of a red curtain in the cheer of a female audience in Tehran, Iran. Mojdeh (21), Reyhaneh (22), Nona (18) and Yasamin (22) belong to the same ballet group in Tehran. They are part of the Iranian post-war generation, which stands up for self-determination, freedom and equality. In 1958 the Iranian National Ballet Company was established and produced over 50 shows until the revolution. According to the Iranian law, immorality and fornication result from sensual dance, which is why in 1979 all dance facilities were dissolved and dance was banned from the Iranian public. Nevertheless, more and more Iranians are dancing today and try to make it their profession. The ballerina Pardis formed a ballet group with Nima, a contemporary dancer in 2008, which ten years later performed for the first time after the revolution with both women and men on Tehran‘s most famous stage. Having said that, the group is struggling with reprisals: Already approved plays are being cancelled, the light is turned off during performances and too much public attention, for instance via Instagram, may result in the arrest of participating artists. Whereas during the revolution the abolition of ballet symbolized independence from the West, today dance stands for the longing of a generation for Western freedom. This story is about the social change in Iran on the basis of a subculture, in which dance is elementary to life. These dancers put trust in their ability and strength to fulfil their dreams, despite the disadvantageous circumstances they face. The dancers represent a whole generation that reclaims its desired future.⁣
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http://www.shirinabedi.com⁣
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On September 10th, two experienced and celebrated

On September 10th, two experienced and celebrated photographers–the Finnish-American photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen (b. 1945) and the Finnish photographic artist Stefan Bremer (b. 1953) will talk about their decades of work, careers in photographic education, and the differences and similarities in their visions, practice, and thinking.

The seminar will take place in the Auditorium of the National Museum of Finland.
Tickets can be ordered here:
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Maamme kokeneimpiin ja arvostetuimpiin kuuluvat valokuvataiteilijat Arno Rafael Minkkinen (s. 1945) ja Stefan Bremer (s. 1953) keskustelevat pitkästä urastaan ja valokuvauskoulutuksen muutoksesta.

Seminaari järjestetään Kansallismuseon Auditoriossa. Turvallisuussyistä seminaarin osallistujamäärää on rajoitettu. Seminaarin kieli on englanti.

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Helsinki Photo Festival’s first Portfolio Review

Helsinki Photo Festival’s first Portfolio Reviews were held on August 28-29, 2020 at Ateljee in Kansallismuseo / The National Museum of Finland.

We have received 43 portfolios from all around the world, from Auckland to Chicago, Houston, New York, London, Berlin, Istanbul, Riga, Stockholm and Helsinki. Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions many of the jurors and participants were not able to attend in person and participated online.

Face to face sessions were held on August 28th with Elina Anttila (Director of the National Museum of Finland), Maria Faarinen (Chief Curator at The Finnish Museum of Photography), Emanuela Mirabelli @emanuela_mirabelli (Photo Editor, Marie Claire Italy), Rafael Rybczynski @rafugee (Artistic Director of Helsinki Photo Festival) and Stig Marlon Weston @stigmw (Photographer and Director of the CYAN studio collective).

During two days, August 28-29, the experts team was reviewing online the submitted works in 20 min sessions. The online team included Nita Vera @nitavvera (Photographer & PhD student of Photography at Aalto University), Marianne Ager (Curator of Photography & Film, Brandts Museum of Art and Visual Culture in Odense, Denmark), Karin Aringer @karinaringer (Head of Contemporary Art & Design Bukowskis, Sweden), Alexa Becker @alexa.beckr (Acquisitions Editor for photography and art books for Kehrer Verlag), Nela Eggenberger @eikonmagazine (Chief Editor at EIKON – International Magazine for Photography & Media Art), Moritz Neumüller (Barcelona based Curator, Educator and Writer in the field of Photography and New Media).

Naoya Yoshikawa @yoshikawa.naoya (Artists of Photography and Professor at Osaka University of Arts), could not attend the sessions but was voting all portfolios.

Currently we narrowing down the winners and will publish the results in the upcoming days.

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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Dorota Stolarska, Poland @dorotadorotadorota • It's Always Summer There and Nothing Changes • Exhibited in Karhupuisto⁣⁣
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As far as Dorota can remember, her grandparents lived in the same flat and for all those years, nothing changed there. Even many years after they both passed away, the flat remained the same. The same furniture, curtains, and souvenirs. Although the artist has never lived there herself, the flat became for her a symbol of her inviolable and strong relationship with her family, part of her identity. In 2019, the flat was renovated and put up for sale and for Dorota it felt like she was losing part of herself. After the renovation nothing looked the same, it was just an empty space with white walls and no history in it. In this empty flat with only a few pieces of furniture left, Dorota decided to train her memory by recalling her childhood plays. Starting with hide-and-seek, through recreating the artist’s fascination with chair and armchair constructions, she ended up changing into her grandma's clothes. While browsing through their souvenirs, the artist realized that she had never asked about her grandparents’ background. Also, she has never wondered why the flat is situated downtown among the embassy and government departments. As a child, Dorota was unaware that this was not very typical for Polish houses but as she grew older, she learnt that it was due to her grandfather‘s involvement with the communist party. It was not a secret but nobody, even her grandmother, knew what was his part in it. The artist soon realized that the history of her family was built on secrets. Among these white walls, she felt uncertainty and lost trust in her memory. She couldn’t recreate the past from the pieces in the same way they were before. That is why the photographer decided to utilize all of her grandparents’ belongings and created something new, surreal sculptures and situations.⁣⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Anton Ivanov, Russia @anton_artoffoto • Trust in Peace • Exhibited in Karhupuisto⁣⁣
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The project Trust in Peace depicts people of Syria, the country that has been torn apart by destructive and violent conflict since 2011, and how they all do their best to come back to peaceful life. Photographer Anton Ivanov had numerous conversations with local citizens; both those whose fates were disfigured by a lasting military conflict and those who were lucky enough to escape, but still had to face destructive ramifications of war. However, the photographer saw something more than just tragedy in Syrian people, whether it was a disabled sapper from Scalbia or a girl named Sidra from Aleppo, who has to walk on prosthetics. This terrible disaster is hard to ignore or hide.
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During his visit to Syria in September 2019, Ivan visited places that were just recently the centre of military conflict as well as areas that, fortunately, have not been touched by the war. He made a number of black and white analog film shots with a Hasselblad camera in Scalbia, Hama, Aleppo, Homs, Sednayah, Maaloula, fully destroyed during the war city of Kornaz and in Damascus, its suburbs as well as other parts of Syria. The name for the project Trust in Peace was not created from the very beginning, but only after the first shots were printed and first impressions from the visit settled. The title was influenced by fragmented impressions from numerous meetings and conversations with simple Syrians, the majority of whom were not broken and have not yet lost their faith in humanity. These people have not given up their own destiny and look into the future with hope. This project will not only preserve the unbelievable fragility of the surrounding order of things, that can be destroyed in one minute, but will also represent those people that have faced such disasters and, despite all misfortunes and miseries, still keep a positive perspective for peaceful life.⁣⁣

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Torstaina 4.9. suomalaiset huippukuvaajat Elina Br

Torstaina 4.9. suomalaiset huippukuvaajat Elina Brotherus (s. 1972) ja Svante Gullichsen (s. 1994) kertovat teoksistaan ja lähestymistavoistaan valokuvataiteeseen Kansallismuseon seminaarissa.

Elina Brotherus @elinabrotherus on Suomessa ja Ranskassa asuva kansainvälisesti tunnettu valokuva- ja videotaiteilija. Hänet on palkittu uransa aikana lukuisilla suomalaisilla ja kansainvälisillä valokuvapalkinnoilla, kuten Fotofinlandialla (2000), Carnegie Art Awardin nuoren taiteilijan palkinnolla (2003) ja valokuvataiteen valtionpalkinnolla (2008). Brotheruksen töitä on ollut esillä monissa yksityis- ja yhteisnäyttelyissä Euroopassa, Pohjois-Amerikassa ja Aasiassa. Hän on tehnyt muun muassa valokuvateokset Decisive Days (2002) ja The New Painting (2005), ja juuri julkistettavan Museoviraston entisen pääjohtajan Juhani Kostetin muotokuvan.

http://www.elinabrotherus.com/

Svante Gullichsen @gullichsen on helsinkiläinen valokuvaaja, jonka työn ytimessä on ihmisen ja luonnon sekä pimeyden ja valon välinen suhde. Gullichsenin teoksia on ollut esillä muun muassa Generation 2017 -näyttelysarjassa vuosina 2017-2018. Gullichsen on vuoden 2019 Helsinki Photo -festivaalin open call -kilpasarjan voittaja teemalla "anarkia". Hän voitti samana vuonna myös festivaalin parhaan kuvan palkinnon.

https://svantegullichsen.com/

Seminaari järjestetään Kansallismuseon Auditoriossa, museon pohjakerroksessa. Seminaarin kieli on englanti. Lipun hinta on 25 euroa ja sen voi ostaa täältä: https://bit.ly/3gKfYd8

Tervetuloa!

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Tilaisuuden osallistujamäärä rajataan niin, että turvaväleistä huolehtiminen on mahdollista. Tilan yhteydessä on mahdollisuus käsienpesuun ja käsidesiä on saatavilla – jokaisen odotetaan huolehtivan käsihygieniasta ja saapuvan paikalle ainoastaan oireettomana. Ohjeistuksia tarkennetaan lähempänä tapahtuman ajankohtaa.

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Now a new team of media geeks joined us. Enjoy the

Now a new team of media geeks joined us. Enjoy the show and visit our outdoor exhibitions around Helsinki.

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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Dilla Djalil Daniel, Indonesia @dilla_djalil_daniel_photo • The Trust of the Matter • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo
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The Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital (FAE), where the images of The Trust of the Matter were shot, is the first elephant hospital in the world. It is dedicated solely to the care of these giant, yet sensitive and emotional mammals. The FAE is a non-governmental organisation that gives free care to sick elephants as well as provides free room and board for the mahouts (elephant caretakers), so they can stay on location during the hospital treatment. All of the domestic elephants in this hospital have either been abused, are sick, injured, or expecting elephants, about to have calves. Many of these elephants belong to elephant tourism camps, which are dotted around the vicinity of Chiang Mai. Most of the elephant patients stay in the hospital temporarily, however, there are five resident elephants that have been living there right from the beginning. ⁣⁣
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Three of them are permanently injured landmine victims, two of which, Motala and Mosha, have each had one of their legs amputated below the knee. Nonetheless, they are quite fortunate, as in 2008 Mosha had her first bespoke prosthetic leg especially crafted and designed for her. She is the first elephant in the word to wear a prosthetic leg. As for Motala, she got her first one in 2009. From time to time Motala and Mosha walk around the compound on their prosthetic limbs. It took years for the vets and paramedics to rehabilitate them and the recovery has been a long journey, involving constant treatment, patience and loving care. Each of these five permanent resident elephants has suffered their own traumatic experiences, as they were not only injured physically, but were also mentally broken. It takes great patience and dedication from the vets, mahouts and hospital staff to gradually build the mutual trust and bond with these gigantic mammals on their long road to rehabilitation.⁣⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Margeaux Walter, United States @margeauxwalter • Believe me • Exhibited in the Kids’ Corner, Kansallismuseo⁣
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Believe Me is a series of photographs resembling surveillance images that one might find in Google Earth. Mimicking augmented realities, Walter stages site-specific temporary installations in the environment that challenge our current post-fact world, influenced by scripted and hyperbolic reality television, fake news, sensational journalism and virtual experiences. By performing the characters in each scene and trusting a drone to capture the image, Walter herself becomes a puppet in the process, flipping the relationship between photographer and subject as well as referencing contemporary surveillance practices. Though seemingly digitally fabricated, Walter’s images are created in camera, using Photoshop only to add the characters, all of which are performed by her, to the pictures. ⁣
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Margeaux Walter received her MFA from Hunter College and BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in New York. She has been awarded multiple honors from the Magenta Foundation, Photolucida, Px3 Paris, International Photography Awards, and other organizations. She has attended artist-in-residence programs at Red Gate Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, Marble House Project, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. Walter’s works have been exhibited at institutions such as MOCA, Hunterdon Art Museum, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Tacoma Art Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Butler Institute of American Art. Her projects have been featured in publications including The New York Times, New York Post, Seattle Times, Boston Globe, and Blouin Art Info.⁣
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Tervetuloa kolmipäiväiseen työpajaan valokuv

Tervetuloa kolmipäiväiseen työpajaan valokuvaaja Stig Marlon Westonin @stigmw ja kavereidensa kanssa. Tapahtuma järjestetään Kansallismuseon piharakennuksessa (ovi B3)

Kurssin kieli: englanti liput: https://bit.ly/3gp9DmW

Kurssilla tutustut ammattilaisten työtapoihin, saat arvokasta palautetta omista töistäsi ja voit verkostoitua muiden valokuvaajien kanssa.

Päivä 1: työpajaohjaaja Stig Marlon Weston esittelee kurssin sisällöt ja työtään valokuvaajana. Osallistujilla on mahdollisuus esittää ja kertoa omista teoksistaan. Osallistujat saavat kotitehtäviä.
Päivä 2 – Osallistujat esittelevät kotitehtävänsä. Ensimmäinen vieraileva puhuja Henri Airo kertoo hänen työstään. Osallistujat saavat lisätehtäviä.
Päivä 3 Osallistujat esittelevät kotitehtävänsä. Seuraava vieraileva puhuja Nita Vera @nitavvera kertoo hänen työstään. Lopussa käydään yhdessä läpi osallistujien kokemukset ja näkemykset tulevaisuuden töistään.
Kurssin vaatimukset:

Jokainen osallistuja tuo mukanaan noin 10-20 –sivuisen tulostetun portfolion, josta haluaa keskustella muiden kanssa.

Kurssin kotitehtäviä varten tarvitaan kamera ja mahdollisuus esittää uusia kuvia joko printattuna tai digitaalisesti.

This is a three day long photography workshop (August 24-26) with a Norwegian visual artist Stig Marlon Weston, held at the Häkälä building in Kansallismuseo / The National Museum of Finland. (Access from Töölönkatu 1).

This is a three day long photography workshop (August 24-26) with a Norwegian visual artist Stig Marlon Weston, held at the Häkälä building in Kansallismuseo / The National Museum of Finland. (Access from Töölönkatu 1).

Schedule: 24.8. 3 hour afternoon session with Stig Marlon Weston, 17:00-20:00 25.8. 3 hour afternoon session with Stig and Henri Airo, 17:00-20:00 26.8. 3 hour afternoon session with Stig and Nita Vera, 17:00-20:00

Language: English
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3gp9DmW

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All Helsinki City outdoors exhibitions with works

All Helsinki City outdoors exhibitions with works of 50 finalists of the theme Trust are now open 24/7 at parks and waterfronts.

Walking the map - Part IV
Kansallismuseo - The National Museum of Finland walk from Hakaniemi via Töölonlahti lake through the summer yard to Museokatu.

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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Fotografiepolak, Belgium @fotografiepolak • Real heroes never sleep!!! • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo, Karhupuisto⁣
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During the COVID-19 period Fotografiepolak had the chance to capture moments in the Antwerp University Hospital. These times at the frontline were hard to witness, but very important to capture. “Real heroes never sleep… Yet, trust them, because they save lives! So much respect for all the working heroes in the hospital!” Fotografiepolak⁣
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Fotografiepolak’s style of photography is rooted in photojournalism. They have travelled a lot around the world in order to capture “real life moments”, however, the artist specializes in wedding photography. Fotografiepolak’s creativity is noticeable by the way they play with light, moments and locations. Fotografiepolak is working very hard, however, has a lot of fun creating beautiful images. They are trying to grow everyday, which is why they still follow a lot of workshops from top photographers. During these times and because of the lock down, they have returned to their first profession as ER nurse. The University Hospital of Antwerp asked Fotografiepolak to capture moments during this extraordinary situation in everyone's life. “Belgium is fighting very hard against COVID-19 and for moments like these I am proud to be a nurse and a photographer. I can be meaningful during these bizarre times in my two professions… I love my job!”. Fotografiepolak⁣
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www.fotografiepolak.com⁣
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http://helsinkiphotofestival.com/⁣⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Ana Maria Arévalo Gosen, Venezuela, @anitasinfiltro • The Meaning of Life • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo⁣
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“I was shocked when the doctor, after a one minute check up, told me the news. Emptiness invaded my body. Not only did I have a rare type of cancer, but it had been inhabiting my right testicle for more than a year. A year? Less than a year ago I was getting married. Suddenly, my thoughts were spinning: Will I die soon? What will happen to my dreams? I ran home to my wife, she held me and said we were too young to face this. The world ended, but we stayed strong together. Our love made us feel sure that this fight can be fought together. A surgery to remove the malicious tumor was scheduled for three days after I received the news. Instead of Chemotherapy, I opted to have regular medical check ups. Seven months later, which was around Christmas time, my blood values had sky rocked again and the emptiness came back. The dormant cancer woke up. It metastasized in the lymph nodes in my stomach and chemotherapy was the only option to survive. The night before the first treatment, my wife shaved my hair, a symbol of change. The next day I had a strange element implanted in my chest, a gate for the chemotherapy to access my veins directly in order to kill every fast growing cell, good or bad. From that day on my goals changed: To heal my soul, to be a whole person again, and to rebuild my home from the ashes that cancer left and myself. I did all those things, but it never really leaves you; I will always be a cancer survivor. The looping cycle of check-ups never ends and the person I am now will never be the same. How does one’s identity transform when our body is put under scrutiny and jeopardized? How does a young man survive and move forward? Trust being the most important value to answer this question: Trust your family and loved ones, trust the process, trust the body and technology.” Ana Maria Arévalo Gosen⁣
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https://www.amagosphoto.com/⁣
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http://helsinkiphotofestival.com/⁣⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Melissa Ianniello, Italy @melissa_ianniello • Wish it Was a Coming Out • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo⁣
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Wish it Was a Coming Out is an ongoing long-term project, with which Ianniello wants to investigate the double taboo related to homosexuality and old age in Italy. This work originated from a personal experience of hers: Ianniello didn't come out to her grandparents as lesbian, missing out on the chance to have a shared understanding with them. The lack of such a confession gave rise to the need for self-redemption, the necessity for an act of catharsis which would benefit herself and others. And so, as an indirect tribute to her grandparents, she began exploring the life experiences of people who were similar to them in terms of age, but similar to her in terms of sexual orientation. The protagonists of this work are a group of gay men and lesbian women between sixty and ninety years old. Ianniello began to connect with them in 2018, when she got their contact details through word of mouth and some online dating apps. Then, she started travelling around Italy to meet those who wanted to share their personal story. Ianniello decided to photograph these people as couples or alone, in their own homes, in scenes of true intimacy. In doing so, she captured smiles, worries, thoughts, love and desires, which are rarely given a voice. Beginning with the shared experiences, both hers and those of her subjects, her aim was, and still is, to provide insight into the lives of gay and lesbian people in Italy today who experience that contradictory and fascinating phase of life, known as ageing.
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https://www.facebook.com/melissaianniellophotography/⁣

https://melissaianniello.com
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Making Helsinki the photo capital of the North! W

Making Helsinki the photo capital of the North!

Walking the map - Part III.
Central Railway Station Helsinki
The digital billboard exhibition was taking place 7.7.-31.7.2020, daily 6am-12pm.

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Winner Open Call / Nordic Village • Helsinki Pho

Winner Open Call / Nordic Village • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Geir Moseid, Norway @geirmoseid • Undertaking • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo⁣⁣
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The series Undertaking investigates to what extent social, political and psychological factors shape today’s society. Furthermore, it explores how governmental control, group mentalities and xenophobia shape society’s behavior and how these constructs affect our coexistence and collective trust. The world is currently going through a political shift. Rhetorical platitudes, thought outmoded, serve to perpetuate long-established feelings of anger. It appears that fear has become the primary factor determining how groups relate to one another. Truth has become a fluid term relating to news, science, and photography alike. This apparent fluidity is fueled by demagoguery and populism’s polarization of opinion. In this new framework, the lines between fact and fiction are blurred. In Undertaking, Geir’s aim is to create images that trigger a certain response in the viewer that either recalls a memory from their real life or from their fictional history. By combining cinematographic elements with motifs from everyday life, his images operate in-between fact and fiction, the seen and the experienced where logic coexists with irrational thoughts.⁣⁣
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http://www.geirmoseid.com/⁣⁣
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http://helsinkiphotofestival.com/⁣⁣⁣nordic-village-2020/
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All Helsinki City outdoors exhibitions with works

All Helsinki City outdoors exhibitions with works of 50 finalists of the theme Trust are now open 24/7 at parks and waterfronts.

Walking the map - Part II.
Tähtitorninvuoren puisto,
Observatory Hill Park.

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All Helsinki City outdoors exhibitions with works

All Helsinki City outdoors exhibitions with works of 50 finalists of the theme Trust are now open 24/7 at parks and waterfronts.

Walking the map - Part I.
Pyhän Birgitan Puisto, Hernesaarenranta 4

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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Alain Schroeder, Belgium @alainschroeder • Saving Orangutans • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo⁣
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Indonesia’s Sumatran orangutan is under severe threat from the incessant and ongoing depletion and fragmentation of the rainforest. As palm oil and rubber plantations, logging, road construction, mining, hunting and other development continue to proliferate, orangutans are being forced out of their natural rainforest habitat. Organizations like the OIC (Orangutan Information Centre) and their immediate response team HOCRU (Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit), rescue orangutans in difficulty (lost, injured, captive, etc) while the SOCP (Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme) cares for, rehabilitates and resocializes orangutans at their purpose-built medical facility, aiming to reintroduce them into the wild and to create new self-sustaining, genetically viable populations in protected forests. That we share 97% of our DNA with orangutans seems obvious when you observe their human-like behavior. Today, with just over 14,000 specimens left, the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo Abelii) along with the 800 specimens of the recently discovered Tapanuli species (Pongo tapanuliensis), are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).⁣
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https://alainschroeder.myportfolio.com/⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Marlena Waldthausen, Germany @marlenawaldthausen • Noiva do Cordeiro (All we need) • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo ⁣
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Noiva do Cordeiro, a community of 300 women and men in south-eastern Brazil, is one of the most beautiful examples of what women and men are capable of and, perhaps most importantly, where women rule. There is no violence and no church, no hierarchies, no privileges. And the central figure of the village is a modest old lady: Matriarch Delina. In her village, fights are not brought to court but solved in long discussions. Everybody earns the same. For small and bigger investments everybody helps with what they can. Homosexual love is as accepted as heterosexual love. Kids are looked after in turn, the older and the sick are taken care of. In the huge community house in the centre of the village, food is cooked for everybody several times a day. They smoke, dance and celebrate. And – very different from the rest of the country – power lies in women ́s hands. The origin of this female rule lies in the village ́s history. Towards the end of the 1950s, a strict evangelical priest married the then 16-year-old Delina and established a rigid system: No music, no contraception, only long hair and clothes, several daily hours of praying and a woman´s word always less valid than a man’s. In the early 1990s the women finally rebelled and broke with the autocrat. They turned away from his male dominated regime. They banned religion, wanted to live compassionately, without a priest, in a community without prohibition. Trying to classify the community structure of Noiva do Cordeiro, one would probably call them matriarchal, socialist and grass-roots democrats. But people in Noiva don ́t need terms or theories. Their principle is – and that may sound as utopian as it is beautiful – love. Everything else follows.⁣

http://www.marlena-waldthausen.de/⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Cop Shiva, India @cop_shiva_ • Street as Studio • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo⁣
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A migrant’s relationship with the city is a fragmented one. The harsh metropolis of Bangalore can be a difficult landscape; one that offers no easy solution to the primal need to belong and one that accuses immigrants as non-trustable. Portraits constitute an intimate genre within photography. There is the sitter who is besieged by his own cultural context. Props and postures serve as aids in the business of posing and presenting a persona to the camera lens. Studio photography allows for a fusion between the persona and a given landscape, often a painted and representational backdrop that permits wish fulfillment. The photographer composes the frame; eliminates the extraneous, while retaining the essential. The portrait is captured as evidence to an ephemeral truth. The afterlife of the mise-en-scene is etched onto film, its only other trace remains as memory. Cop Shiva seeks intimacy through the lens of his camera, which becomes a receptacle and records the everyday lives of the city’s resident migrants, who come here in search of a livelihood. Shiva has engaged with them over months, and only after gaining their trust, he invites them to pose for him. ⁣
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The aim of Street as Studio project is to increase their sense of belonging to the city and the community that he and his camera represent. He further aims to emphasize their position in the whole scheme of the things a metropolis represents. The backdrops, referencing the studio tradition, are outdoors, specifically, the murals commissioned by the city’s municipality to “beautify” the streets: Garish paintings of heritage monuments, exotic animals, gods and goddesses, and spectacular landscapes – all of which stand in striking contrast to their lived reality as a secular and cosmopolitan working citizenry, struggling for recognition and in search of intimacy. Shiva asked these real-life vernacular characters to pose against these murals in order to create intimate portraits.⁣
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http://copshiva.com/⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Cocoa Laney, United States, @cocoalaney • Belle • Exhibited in Korjaamo Culture Factory, Galleria Futura⁣
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During the summer of 2019, Cocoa visited fifteen different towns while meeting young women and non-binary people, many of whom invited her to sleep in their homes. Through conversations about shame, religion, and gender identity, the trip became a pilgrimage to find intimacy and connection in a region that can feel simultaneously familiar and inaccessible, even to those who know it best. Moreover, as Alabama continues to make headlines in regards to women’s rights in the age of Trump, the artist became interested in exploring how the new generation of Southerners reconcile their relationship with the state and navigate the contradictions and extremes inherent to Southern identity. These contradictions are especially apparent in the archetype of the idealized Southern woman, who is often expected to be resilient yet obedient and demure in her strength. As the trip progressed, each participant in the project wrote a letter to the anonymous woman Cocoa would meet on her next stop, sharing stories and creating a network of encouragement among strangers. The resulting work explores the nuances of contemporary Southerness with a diverse array of young people, giving an intimate view of life in present-day Alabama from a female perspective. Beyond this, it marks the artist’s own attempt to come to terms with the place she still calls home.⁣
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http://cocoalaney.com/⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Ami Vitale, United States @amivitale • The Guardian Warriors • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo⁣
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Ami Vitale began The Guardian Warriors project ten years ago, after she heard about a plan to airlift four of the world’s last northern white rhinos from a zoo in the Czech Republic to Kenya. It was a desperate, last-ditch effort to save a species. At the time, there were only eight of these rhinos left, all living in captivity. When the artist saw this gentle, hulking creature in the Czech snow, surrounded by smokestacks and humanity, it seemed so unfair. It looked ancient, part of a species that has lived on this planet for millions of years, yet could not survive humanity. On March 19, 2018, Ami made the heartbreaking journey back to Kenya to say goodbye to Sudan, the world's LAST male northern white rhino alive on the planet. This image is of the final moment when Joseph Wachira, one of Sudan's dedicated keepers, went to give him one more rub behind his ear before he died. Sudan leaned his heavy head into his. The artist took the photo of two old friends together for the last time. ⁣
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We are witnessing extinction right now, on our watch. Poaching is not slowing down. If the current trajectory of killing continues, it’s entirely possible that rhinos will be functionally extinct in our lifetime. Without rhinos and elephants and other wildlife we suffer more than loss of ecosystem health. We suffer a loss of imagination, a loss of wonder, a loss of beautiful possibilities. When we see ourselves as part of nature, we understand that saving nature is really about saving ourselves. Sudan taught Ami that. These are a series of images about the relationships and bonds between humans and endangered species. They understand how important TRUST is for a healthy planet and not just with one another, but with the creatures we coexist with. We must begin to see our world as part of the natural world; the natural world as part of our world. Our fates are linked. Losing one part of nature, is a loss for all of nature.⁣
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https://www.amivitale.com/⁣
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http://helsinkiphotofestival.com/⁣⁣
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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Gordon Spooner, France @gordon.spooner • LetGo • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo⁣
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“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.” Thich Nhat Hanh ⁣
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Why are we told to believe stability is desirable? History has proved that everything is temporary. The only thing which has proved permanent is, in fact, instability. Why not accept and embrace instability? The series LetGo is an ode to that uncertainty, to the moment where we leave our comfort zone. The moment in which forward is the only way possible. The moment we decide to put our faith in the future. ⁣
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https://gordonspooner.cargo.site/⁣
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http://helsinkiphotofestival.com/⁣⁣
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Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 opening night! Batch

Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 opening night! Batch 1/8.7. #helphoto20 #helsinkiphotofestival #kansallismuseo #museokatu #myhelsinki #timobrassband #vernissage #opening #trust

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2018

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2018 • Hörður Ásbjörnsson, Iceland, @hoddi_photography • Exhibited in Hermanninpuisto ⁣
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Hörður Ásbjörnsson aka Höddi is an Icelandic photographer and graphic designer based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Höddi studied documentary photography and photojournalism in Florence. After completion of his degree, he moved to Copenhagen, where he worked freelance at various papers and media companies, photographing people, culture and events happening around Denmark. Today, Höddi lives again in Reykjavík and runs a small Creative Agency. At the same time the photographer continues to work freelance in advertisement photography and graphic design.⁣
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https://hoddi.is/⁣
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Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 is featuring Portfoli

Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 is featuring Portfolio Reviews in the festival's program from August 28-29, 2020. The event will be held at Ateljee in The National Museum of Finland or digitally, in case COVID-19 travel restrictions will prevent some of the jurors or participants from attending in person.⁣
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Portfolio Reviews are paid sessions with some leading experts in the field of photography including curators, festival directors as well as magazine editors and photo-book publishers.⁣
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Portfolio Reviews are open to photographers of all levels to showcase their work and to get back professional feedback as well as networking with people who may be able to help you with your career development or lead to exhibitions, publications and much more. Opportunities for critique, guidance, and professional connection are available within a wide range of photographic markets, such as portrait, product, fine art, travel or fashion photography, among many others.⁣
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Submit your portfolio for reviewing here: https://bit.ly/3eYwZQx⁣
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