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Helsinki Photo News out now! After an amazing thi

Helsinki Photo News out now!

After an amazing third edition of our annual photo event with the theme TRUST, we have been working many weeks on documenting all exhibitions and events from this summer. We are now releasing the very first issue of HELSINKI PHOTO NEWS with 90-pages on issuu available for free. The magazine is in English, but also includes Finnish translations of all exhibited artists.

https://issuu.com/helphoto/docs/helsinkiphotonews2020

Enjoy reading our first issue!

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Winner Open Call, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020! T

Winner Open Call, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020!
Theme: Trust
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Exhibited at The National Museum of Finland, Cultural Centre Stoa and Korjaamo Culture Factory

M'hammed Kilito, Morocco @mhammed_kilito
Among You

Among You reflects the choices around personal identity for Moroccan youth through a selection of portraits of young people who take their destinies into their own hands. These individuals have the courage to choose their own realities, often pushing the limits of society further. Whether it be through their creative activities, their appearance, or their sexuality, they convey the image of a young Morocco - alert, changing, claiming the right to be different and celebrating diversity. These young people, whose minds embody the resistance of a palm tree – a tree adapted to the harshest Moroccan climatic conditions – defy the conservative and traditional norms of Moroccan society on a daily basis. They cultivate their private oasis despite the obstacles they encounter in a country that they feel is not progressing at the same pace as they are, and inspire others along the way.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
M'hammed Kilito (b. 1981) is a photographer based in Rabat, Morocco. He has worked in different parts of the world, with a focus on Morocco. As a documentary photographer, Kilitos addresses issues relating to cultural identity and the human condition. In 2020, he became a National Geographic Explorer, received The Photography Prize of the Fondation des Treilles and is nominated by World Press Photo for Joop Swart Masterclass. The same year, he also shortlisted for The CAP (Contemporary African Photography) Prize. He is an alumnus of the Eddie Adams Workshop (2019) and a Magnum Foundation/AC/Prince Claus Fund grantee (2018). He is a contributor of Everyday Middle East and North Africa, a collection of images that convey a more accurate view of daily life in the MENA region than what is commonly seen in the media. His work has been shown at festivals and venues including the Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah), Tate Modern (London), Addis Foto Fest (Addis Ababa) and PHotoESPAÑA (Madrid), among others.

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Winner Open Call and Nordic Village, Helsinki Phot

Winner Open Call and Nordic Village, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020!

Theme: Trust
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Exhibited at Kansallismuseo, Korjaamo Culture Factory and Kaapeli

Mogens Kjoeller, Denmark @mogenskjoeller
Fragments

Trust is an essential part of our lives, especially if we have to focus on other basic elements than to simply survive. If we experience too many uncertainties, we get stressed. If too many elements are being questioned, we will get paralyzed. We need to put the puzzle back in place and might choose unsubstantiated beliefs. We live in a time with more information than ever before. In order to handle this overload of information we have had to introduce new terms, such as “alternative facts” and “fake news” into our vocabulary. In addition to this information overflow, we are experiencing a new uncertainty in the form of a virus, physically real, transmitted from person to person. This “new normal” has been downplayed by some and dramatized by others. It has led to conspiracy theories and breaking of trust, further than on a personal level, as we have also lost trust in our society. Will we ever get back to normal or is this the new normal? Beautification, simplification and selection is the nature of an image. This project uses the photographic medium in its original analogue form to consider the acceptance of an image, obviously showing alterations through cutting. An image always consists of fragments, manipulation and exclusion on the presented. For this project the consideration of parallels between an image and trust is part of the objective.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
After working within strategies, planning and change management for several years, Mogens Kjoeller decided to follow his longstanding dream and went into fine art photography. He received a Post-Baccalaureate in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston and completed a Master’s degree in Photography Arts at Westminster University London in 2019, tutored by Prof. Davis Bate and Dr. Lucy Soutter. Kjoeller’s work has been exhibited in Boston and in London, and will be shown at Incheon Marine Media in August this year.

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Winner Open Call, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020! T

Winner Open Call, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020!
Theme: Trust
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Exhibited at Kansallismuseo and Kaapeli and Pyhän Birgitan Puisto

Carrie and Eric Tomberlin, United States
Sea Level Rise: Visualizing Climate Change

It is difficult to trust what one cannot see. Scientists implore us to act now to stop climate change from destroying the planet, but data is invisible and change is slow and does not impact everyone equally. Having photographed environmental issues for many years, Carrie and Eric find the images of climate change to be limited due to the gradual and elusive nature of the problem. For several years they have been working on a new kind of photography the artists call time distillation. This new paradigm allows them to collect a range of time and collapse it into panoramic space which they later distill into a singular allegorical narrative that has the potential to express a more complex story than a singular photographic image. This process parallels environmental issues in that it is the accumulation of time that reveals the gravity of the situation more clearly than any individual moment. To best visualize this issue, Carrie and Eric traveled to Bangladesh, which is considered by the international scientific community to be amongst the world’s most vulnerable populations to the effects of climate change. Though Bangladesh faces seemingly insurmountable challenges, they are not merely coping, but adapting with resilience and ingenuity utilizing community - based adaptations. In doing so, they provide an example of taking action on a local, national, and international level to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change. Much of what Bangladesh is learning can be applied to other highly populated areas at or near sea level such as Miami, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Amsterdam. Carrie and Eric’s ultimate hope is that better visuals will lead to greater trust and therefore action.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Carrie Tomberlin teaches photography and visual culture at the University of North Carolina Asheville where she serves as Gallery Director and Lecturer of Art. Eric Tomberlin is a freelance photographer and educator.

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Open Call, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020! Theme: T

Open Call, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020!
Theme: Trust
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Silke Koch, Germany
Suspicious Objects

At New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, fingerprints and a computer-saved photograph were taken for the data stock of the U.S. immigration authorities upon arrival. A few days later, several bombs were detonated in London, followed by a worldwide chain of suicide bombings. In the New York City Subway, people and their luggage were being checked, because of a mere suspicion. In the streets, there were objects, with no apparent owner nearby. But are they suspicious, too? Who or what makes these objects suspicious? A (photo) documentation or a conspiracy?

Hans Magnus Enzensberger describes the apocalypse as a “catastrophe in the mind”, due to its overwhelming multitude of images. In her artistic work, Silke Koch deals with public space as a place of social representation and questions its suitability for the foundation of identity. "If you see something – say something" is a slogan that keeps New York’s citizens alert to the feared bombing of unattended suitcases, backpacks and other objects with the alarm level 'orange' (highest warning level). Tracking this warning, a photographic collection of suspicious objects/ sculptures was created according to guidelines listed on the internet. The photos depict (presumably) unattended objects and 'document' them, following a system of registration – the objects are given a number, description and location. The phenomenon of Covid-19 has parallels to the slogan, "If you see something – say something". This is paradoxical, as viruses, unlike (supposedly) unattended objects, are not visible to the human eye. In case of both events, the location of situation-based trust is a public space. Thus, the public space becomes the venue of scenarios that call our trust into question in an unimaginable way.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Silke Koch (b. 1964, Leipzig) studied Photography at HGB Leipzig from 1993-1998 and in 2003 she finished her Master’s degree Since 2014 Koch teaches a photography class at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.

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Winner Open Call, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020! T

Winner Open Call, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020!
Theme: Trust
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Exhibited at Pyhän Birgitan Puisto, The National Museum of Finland and Korjaamo •

Alex McBride, @alex.mcbride United Kingdom
South Sudan: The Road to Peace

Independence freed Sudan from Anglo-Egyptian rule in 1956, and it was a yearning for independence that spurred 50 years of civil war between the north and south of the country soon after. Then in 2011 this same yearning gave birth to the world's youngest nation, South Sudan. It wasn't long, however before the infant country descended into a civil war of its own in 2013. Ethnic tensions between the ruling government's Dinka tribe and the opposition's Nuer boiled over into bloodshed, which, by the time a ceasefire agreement was hashed out in 2018, had left some 400,000 dead, and millions more displaced from their homes. In February of this year the two sides formed a unified government, with President Salva Kiir now having appointed his civil war rival Riek Machar as his First Vice President. The armies which they lead against one another are to be united as one national army. The tribes they represent which inflicted unspeakable atrocities upon one another in wartime are now to form the society slated to join hands in building a sovereign state together. With a history steeped in rivalry, the odds are stacked against the young nation, and so it is trust that lies at the heart of whether a country can rise out of the ashes of its past or regress once again into flames. Having been taken since the signing of the revitalised peace agreement between the government and rebel opposition in 2018, these photographs map out South Sudan’s tight-rope walk to a new peace, and a people's unwavering determination to attain the freedom that they envisioned in the formation of a new state: A dream first conceived some 60 years ago.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Alex McBride is a freelance photographer covering political, social and humanitarian issues in East Africa. He is currently based in Juba, South Sudan.

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Winner Open Call, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020! T

Winner Open Call, Helsinki Photo Festival 2020!
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Exhibited at Sörnaistenlaituri and in Korjaamo and with JCDecaux Finland •

Robin Alysha Clemens @robinalysha, Netherlands
Yo soy otro tú, tú eres otro yo

Mexico is a country that has embraced, accepted, challenged and fought various traditions and religions throughout its history: Starting with the indigenous rituals of the Mayans and Aztecs, then Catholicism imposed by the Spanish colonists to the various cultural influences from Africa and from Latin and North America. While the majority of Mexicans identify as Catholics, the influences of indigenous customs and animistic traditions prior to the colonization are still present today. Mexico is a country where different mystical and religious traditions blend and mutate against a backdrop of a complex political and social history. Yo soy otro tú, tú eres otro yo is a portrayal of the Mexican people and their faith. Photographer Robin Alysha Clemens travelled to Mexico to meet, interview and photograph over 60 believers: Curanderos (spiritual healers), shamans, Catholics, Buddhists, nuns, brujas (witches), supporters of Santa Muerte (Our Lady of Holy Death), spiritual midwives, videntes (seers), new age spiritualists, artists and indigenous people like the Nahua, Seri and Yaqui. Focusing on the diversity of contemporary spirituality in Mexico, this project explores the unseen and unveils the underlying similarities between these spiritual practices. Clemens looks beyond the altars, icons and religious symbols, to capture the people behind these beliefs.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Robin Alysha Clemens (1992, NL) is an Amsterdam based photographer whose work revolves around subcultures and exploring different worlds. Her work visualizes scenes where identity and a sense of place are omnipresent. As a storyteller she is inspired by cinema: She creates theatrical images where light, or more often the absence of light, is most important. Her work has been exhibited during the Dutch Design Week, Photography Festival Naarden, Melkweg Expo and in TETEM, among others.

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Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Laura Liverani, Italy @liveranilaura • Fukushima Surfers • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo

The series Fukushima Surfers focuses on the surfing community in Fukushima, Japan. It consists of posed portraits on location, observational and landscape photographs. The photographer Liverani is interested in exploring how the surfing community is reshaping and reclaiming post-disaster Fukushima beaches. Before the tsunami and triple nuclear meltdown in 2011, and before being forever associated with radiation and disaster, the coast of Fukushima, meaning “Good Luck Valley”, was known for its beautiful beaches and high waves. It was a surfers’s paradise, ranking among the best surfing spots in Japan. After the trauma of the tsunami and nuclear meltdown, surfers had to regain their trust for the ocean that had killed their loved ones and destroyed their homes. It is said that the surfers were the first ones to return to the Fukushima beaches.

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Our outdoor exhibitions at the National Museum of

Our outdoor exhibitions at the National Museum of Finland ends Wednesday, September 30th. Also, you can explore exhibitions in Kallio, Eira, Ullanlinna and Kalasatama. Just check for more details the area map at our home page. #kansallismuseo #photography #exhibition #helsinkiphotofestival #helphoto20 #thisisfinland #helsinki #finland

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Winner Open Call • Helsinki Photo Festival 2020 • Trust • Nuno Serrão, Portugal
@nunoserrao • In Between • Exhibited in Kansallismuseo

Nuno’s blank slate starts with a functional level of emotion, logic, minimalism, and curiosity. The artist considers these to be his metric system. Curiosity often leads Nuno to document frameable micro-narratives that, in the end, will pose a whole new set of questions.
With the sum of all relatable questions, he thinks he’ll get an answer.

“Equilibrium is a state in which all competing forces are balanced. I don’t think such a thing can exist in perpetuity, neither does the universe, or there wouldn't be one. I’m interested in what happens in between all opposing sides, dark versus light, good versus evil, past versus future, happiness versus sadness. It’s in this space that I find most of my inspiration.” Serrão
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Nuno Serrão is a Portuguese photographer, filmmaker, and creative director, interested in the dialogues between science and contemporary art. Each of his images considers how information is handled, shared and perceived, framing scenarios as micro-narratives, demonstrating a sensitivity and a curiosity for the planet and its inhabitants (Kate Simpson, Aesthetica Magazine, 2019).

www.nunoserrao.com

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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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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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www.dorotastolarska.com⁣⁣
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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.⁣⁣

https://taplink.cc/anton_artoffoto ⁣⁣
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http://helsinkiphotofestival.com/⁣⁣⁣
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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.

http://www.helsinkiphotofestival.com/helnews

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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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www.dilladjalildaniel.com⁣⁣
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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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www.margeauxwalter.com⁣
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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

#workshop #masterclass #photography #stigmarlonweston #helsinki #helphoto20 #helsinkiphotofestival #kansallismuseo #finlandjakarta

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.

http://www.helsinkiphotofestival.com/photoevents

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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.

http://www.helsinkiphotofestival.com/photoevents

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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.

http://www.helsinkiphotofestival.com/photoevents

#helsinkiphotofestival #helphoto20
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