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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Sabien Findeisen (@sabienfindeisen), Germany. "What We Want".

The project deals with the life and longings of couples with mental disabilities and wants to show that this love is often in a field of tension, between wanting and self and external determination. The self-image of a person with intellectual disabilities arises through social interaction - depending on how much tolerance the social environment shows towards them and how much scope they are given, it increases the concept of self and consequently the concept of relationship. Growing up with a disability is certainly associated with fear. Fear of being different, of never being tolerated, of being (pre)judged, of never really belonging, of not being able to do what you want. Although terms like “inclusion” and “social participation” postulate the opposite, people with disabilities live in a parallel universe. Since there are no common points of real contact, fear of dealing with people with disabilities can develop. Love and partnership are issues that are of great importance to all of us and are often associated with fears and insecurities anyway. They are universal. People with a disability give each other support, trust, happiness and hope for social acceptance and a certain normality through their partnership. The feeling of being part of society. Precisely because in our culture it is normal for the majority to live in a partnership - where fears can be shared and can become courage.

“I want to photograph social worlds and make them visible to outsiders in order to possibly bring about changes - even if this could only be a change in their perspective” Sabien Findeisen explains to define her work.

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

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Paolo Jimenez (@paojq), Peru. "Rules for Fighting (Reglas para Pelear)".

One day Paola Jimenez googled her dad's name, and found an article titled "Bloody Times: an uncontrollable wave of murders, kidnappings and robberies lashes Lima with more fury than El Niño himself". In it was a photograph of her father, covered in blood in a car-seat. Her father was Feliciano Jiménez Valle, he had a very succesful business in Gamarra. He was killed on February 4, 1998, a month before her 6th birthday. Jimenez’ family didn't let her stay at the wake but she could see her father in his coffin and ask him to wake up. She never knew what happened to him and the emptiness she felt was too great. So the artist began to investigate. Among many things, she found objects that he had when he was killed, rolls of film, videocassettes, police documents and his notebook. Paola’s father married her mother very young, and before their marriage they both wrote in notebooks. She used them to make the project. She put together pieces of his pictures, texts, objects and pieces of his trial's file. The project Paola Jimenez is working on is aimed to be a photobook, in which the artist is trying to communicate with her father, as she reconstructs the story of her family and show how his murder happened and changed their lives. In those years, such crimes were normal and generalized violence was really common. This work shows how the trauma and healing can impact families.

Paola Jimenez (b. 1992) is a peruvian photographer. She focuses on topics such as memory, loss and death using photography, video, archive and text.

Find out more about Paola and her projects on https://pjimenezq.myportfolio.com/

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

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Winner Open Call Nordic - Helsinki Photo Festival

Winner Open Call Nordic - Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Maria Konstanse Bruun (@mariakonstansebruun), Norway. "Then and In Between Now".

"This is a project about my mum, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when I was five years old. A few years ago, her health started to deteriorate, which meant she gradually became more physically disabled. Due to the nature of her mental illness, she refused to accept medical investigation, until she was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2018. These photographs portray my mum's increasing struggle with physical illness and disability, on top of her mental illness. Since learning that my mum was terminally ill, photographing her became even more important to me. Besides having memories of her and her life for my personal future records, it got me closer to her and her reality, which increased my understanding and respect for her struggle. Part of her sadness in life was the feeling of not being understood by the rest of the world. With paranoid schizophrenia in particular, the logics of social interactions are different. This makes communication challenging. As such, my mum didn’t trust the diagnosis and did not want to take any of the medication that were prescribed to her. This caused her a lot of suffering, which was difficult for me to accept. My mum passed away on 3/11/2018."

Maria's art ranges from documentary-style photography to carefully constructed performance-based self-portraiture and appropriation of found images and objects to create new work. Maria's work revolves around the uncertain nature of the boundaries between the physical and the metaphysical self, and the self and its surroundings.

Find out more about Maria and her projects on https://www.mariakonstansebruun.com/.

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

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Peter Pflügler (@peter.pflugler), Austria. "Now Is Not The Right Time".

“This started out as a story about my father´s suicide attempt when I was two years old. It was an investigation into the traces of a well-kept family secret. While I was revisiting my parent’s trauma, its places, objects and memories I could not call my own, I found it here, inside myself. My body always knew. This is no longer a story about a suicidal attempt. This is about the impossibility of secrets, about what we are sharing when we hide. This is about pain inflicted out of love, about the complexity of silence and the unexplainable sadness of a boy. When we draw our family tree of sorrow, where do its roots begin? Mum, Dad, this is your trauma, that you kept wrapped in countless colorful blankets and yet unknowingly handed over to me in a loving embrace. This is my trauma now.”

Peter Pflügler mainly works with photography and video, exploring the dynamics of secrets, the act of hiding and transgenerational trauma. He believes that the friction between the known and the untold influences our own narrative. Silence plays a big role in his work - both in investigating its role in transferring trauma and as a voice itself. Peter Pflügler often focuses on personal stories to tell about universal issues. As a previous dancer and performer, the photographer sees the body as a memorising and expressive medium and he experiments with its communicative rage and speechlessness. In Pflügler’s research he collects and investigates traces of his invisible topics. He is fascinated by the dilemma of using a visual medium in order to talk about something invisible.

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

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Winner Open Call Nordic - Helsinki Photo Festival

Winner Open Call Nordic - Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Anna Kuokkanen (@anna_kuokkanen), Finland. "From the Shadows of Human Trafficking to an Activist – Itohan Okundaye's Story".

Itohan Okundaye comes from Nigeria. At the age of 12 she left school and worked to support her family. When a relative offered her work in Europe, she seized the opportunity - even though it might lead to prostitution - as it would enable her to make money and help her siblings to stay in school. After arriving in Italy, Okundaye was told that she owed a human trafficker €40 000. The only work available was prostitution. After obtaining a residence permit with forged documentation, Okundaye was able to work to pay off her debt. This was difficult, however, as various expenses took up most of her income. Finally, Okundaye was able to break loose from prostitution. She had heard of Finland: a country where human rights are respected. She left Italy, arrived in Finland and applied for asylum. The process was long and eventful but she refused to give up. She wanted to give girls the opportunities that she never had. She wanted to call awareness to human trafficking and raise funds for women’s education in Nigeria. As such, Okundaye launched a campaign called 'Different Stories'. Since then, she has fearlessly put herself at stake by sharing her personal experience. She wants to inspire people with her story, do something meaningful and take back the years spent as a victim of human trafficking.

Anna Kuokkanen has a background in sociology. She takes interest in issues such as social justice, migration and development co-operation, examining social phenomena through the lens.

Find out more about Anna and her projects on https://www.annakuokkanen.com/

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

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

María de la Paz Gutiérrez (@mariadelapazgut), Argentina. "Winter Garden".

The pandemic and the quarantine that stopped the world came into our lives without warning, without deadlines or instructions on how to deal with it. María de la Paz Gutiérrez photographed her daughters and sons in these days of quarantine. How will her children remember these months of confinement when they will be adults? What will be left of these times? The world we’ve inhabited until now is no longer here.

María de la Paz Gutiérrez (b. 1971, Buenos Aires) studies photography with Valeria Bellusci, Juan Travnik, Carlos Bosch, Sub-cooperative of Photographers and Andy Goldstein.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Kristen Joy Emack (@kristenjoyemack), United States. "Cousins".

Kristen Emack’s daughter and niece's involvement in each other's lives is both gravitational and expected. "Cousins" chronicles the gorgeous arc of childhood. It captures the tension and beauty, humor and closeness that exists within familial bonds. The girls have each other, and the artist admires their innocent, confident relationships to themselves, their world and one another. Between them is an intimate and spiritual knowledge that is both ordinary and extraordinary. Emack says: “I'm indebted to these three beauties for letting me capture the brilliance of their communion and kinship. As they have matured, they have begun to understand that the lives of Black girls are not well documented, and agree that one added intention of this series is to bring forward that perspective.” Since the murder of George Floyd and the onset of white supremacists storming the US capital, the girls understand that living joyfully and connected as Black children in America requires an inner fearlessness. Emack hopes that when they look back on this work, they will see the beauty of their childhood and their happiness as an expression of courageous resistance. She also hopes that when looking for everyday representations of themselves in the world, they will find themselves here, in this work they made together, reflected with love.

Kristen Emack is a photographer and public school educator who lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work includes two ongoing projects that look at childhood, family and visibility, and a finished series that looks at loss.

Find out more about Kristen and her projects on https://www.kristenjoyemack.com/

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Winner Open Call Nordic - Helsinki Photo Festival

Winner Open Call Nordic - Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Marie Bentzon (@mariebentzon), Denmark. "Væv".

To Marie Bentzon, fearless is connected to being childish. Her friend once asked her what the difference between being a grown-up and a child was. Marie does not think being a child and an adult are necessarily seperate. We merge: we will always be children, your childhood will be who you become as an adult, just as the adults are the children they once were. “I think a lot about how childhood shapes our lives going forward, what you carry with you. And especially how memories affect life”. Were we born the way we are today? Maybe we should allow ourselves more to be who we were then, more childish. Maybe we should allow ourselves to be more fearless? “Væv” means tissue and are the patterns, structures, lines that connect who we are and what we will become. With this project, the artist went back to her childhood home in a period where she felt stressed and unstable. She investigates her connections to the landscape and the place around the farm which has been in the family for generations. She states that “the photographs are playful and colorful and connect me to the child in me”, before adding: “the conversation with the young me was important in the project, therefore I have also worked with archive photos I took when I was younger. I have made a book with the pictures and in the back of the book I’ve collected photographs of feathers, leaves, stones and such as documentation of the investigation”.

Marie Bentzon (b.1995) is a Danish photographer working in the field between documentary and poetry.

Find out more about Marie and her projects on https://www.mariebentzon.com/

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

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Angelika Kollin (@angelikakollin), Estonia. "Fearless".

These three portraits represent being fearless:

"Martha Is Our Future": Malawian immigrant Emmanuel and his daughter Martha. The reality of their life is survival in one of the townships surrounding Cape Town. Life is hard for Emmanuel, who depends on low and occasional wages as a day laborer. What gives him hope and courage is the dream for Martha's future. This family does not have the luxury to be defeated by fear.

"Lucky's Boy": Lucky and his son Daniel. Lucky is a Malawian immigrant, who works full time as a gardener and lives with his family of 4 in a township. Daniel was named after (Lucky's words) a very kind white man, who treated him as his equal, and as well after biblical Daniel who stepped into lion's den and represents strength.

"Hold Me 'till I Go": 75 year old Katinka Hall, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2019 and was undergoing chemotherapy treatments. Despite the grave predictions due to her old age, she entered each day with courage and an incredibly inspiring amount of hope. She is facing each day fearlessly and radiates the wisdom and beauty of the person who reached acceptance of the possibility of the imminent journey back home.

Angelika Kollin engages with her passion for photography and art as a tool of exploration of interhuman connections and/or the absence of such. She has spent years living in African countries, where she explored the topic in a variety of different cultures and economic conditions. It strengthened her belief that the one thing that shapes us the most is our relationship with our parents.

Find out more about Angelika and her projects on https://iconicartist.eu/a-portfolio/angelika-kollin

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

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Helsinki Photo Festival announces limited edition!

Helsinki Photo Festival announces limited edition!

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

The limited edition program includes a number of selected international photographers who were exhibited at Helsinki Photo Festival during earlier years. First signings are Korean photographer Jooeun Baae and internationally celebrated Indonesian photographer Dilla Djalil-Daniel.

The edition is limited to 30 prints only. The online auction has started now on auctionet.com and ends Nov 14th, 2021. A web-shop is scheduled to open in the nearest future with all signed artists and upcoming talents such as Estonian photographer Angelika Kollin, Swedish photographer Carl-Mikael Ström, Finnish photographer Tomas Olsen, Belgian photographer Charlotte Mariën and Spanish photographer Oskar Alvarado. The complete limited edition will be exhibited from January 5th- March 9th, 2022 at the Scandic Hotel Marski gallery in downtown Helsinki

The project is supported by Nordisk Kulturfond. Stockholms Auktionsverk, the oldest auction house in the world still operating today, is the trading partner for this limited edition.

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

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Katia Repina (@katia_repina), Russia. "Returning to Oneself".

Returning to Oneself transports the viewer into a poetic world that captures the healing process using Kambo and sheds light on broader themes of mental and physical health. On her ten-year anniversary of being an immigrant, Katia Repina received alarming medical results; her body was in a precarious pre-cancer stage. The doctors informed her that her chances of developing cancer were incredibly high and she would have to undergo a risky surgical procedure that would affect any future pregnancies. She refused the surgery and began a journey of healing beyond her body; unraveling the trauma that she believes was the source of her health issues. “Somehow Kambo found me, and since it is known for treating cancer, I decided to try it. Six months later I repeated the same medical test: my health has improved and I no longer require a surgery” Katina Repina explains. Kambo is a traditional ritual that uses the secretion of the giant monkey frog to purify the body and is used to treat health conditions such as depression, PTSD and cancer. As it is not a psychedelic, it does not affect the state of consciousness. It is venom and medicine at the same time, a combination of science and the unknown. Beyond the Kambo ritual, this project is about a journey of transformation, trauma, vulnerability and a deep desire to heal and to break free.

Katia Repina is a Russian documentary photographer, filmmaker and visual artist. She focuses her documentary projects on intimate stories and spotlight the issues of gender, identity, human relationships and sexuality.

Find out more about Katia and her projects on https://www.katiarepina.com/

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

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Winner Open Call Nordic - Helsinki Photo Festival

Winner Open Call Nordic - Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Anne Lass (@a.n.n.e.l.a.s.s), Denmark. "Low Season".

Low Season was photographed in Østermarie, Anne Lass’ hometown on the Danish island of Bornholm. Her starting point was to capture the low season of this otherwise touristic island. The artist also wanted to challenge herself, however, by being alone in the darkness. Darkness is peaceful and quiet - but not only: it can be threatening or eerie. “Committing in the dark has always been a personal challenge for me, who grew up in places with artificial light in the streets. When walking alone after dark, I feel threatened and vulnerable. Yet I want to face the darkness, know what really happens when the light disappears, and overcome my fear”, Anne reveals. When she moved to Østermarie, she was reminded of the series Twin Peaks, because of the small-town atmosphere and charismatic neighbors. Her project is also a tribute to this series - which she definitely watched at a too early age. Although the project has a documentary starting point, it is important for Anne to keep the works very open. She wants there to be room for the viewers to use the works as a projection surface and create their own narratives. She strives for a certain mood rather than telling the "true" story.

Anne investigates different aspects of human living space at the beginning of our 21st century. Especially in the urban cityscapes, she finds conflict areas that influence her images: conflicts of functionalism and individual development, the association with nature, the concourse of construction and vastness, and, last but not least, to human interaction.

Find out more about Anne and her projects on https://www.annelass.com/

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

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Winner Open Call Nordic Village/Helsinki Photo Fes

Winner Open Call Nordic Village/Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Kicki Lundgren (@lukicki), Sweden. "Winter Dip".

Winter swimming has become a big trend in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic as it is an activity you can do without the risk of being infected or infecting someone. It has also allowed Kicki to continue to do her passion without traveling or being indoors with other people. The white bodies and the black water are both enticing and frightening. Feet and hands go numb. Those who bathe for the first time hyperventilate and cannot breathe. “It is important to take control of one’s breathing”, say those who have overcome their fear and defy all laws of nature. “Before I went into the water for the first time, I was afraid of dying from the cold”, says a man who, when photographed, broke his own record of staying in the icy water continuously for ten minutes. Bathing in ice-cold water is really something else. It requires great courage and a belief in one’s own body to cope with extreme conditions. “If you can do it, it is an incredibly wonderful feeling afterward”, say several of the bathers. “It is wonderful to be enclosed in nature even in winter”, says one. “I am no longer depressed, says another, my joints no longer ache”. “To me as a bystander, it is like throwing yourself into death and still managing to survive”, Kicki expresses.

Kicki Lundgren is often drawn to nature in her photographs. She wants people to be surrounded by the elements of nature. She often returns to the water. In her book Floating (Journal, 2016), she portrayed people bathing in the Mediterranean..

Find out more about Kicki and her projects on https://www.kickilundgren.com/

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

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Charlotte Mano (@mano_galliano), France. "Thank You Mum".

Shaken by her mother’s most likely inescapable illness, the only way out for Charlotte Mano is to say, “Mom, we’re going to make images of all this.” As an escape, and considering the coming battle, she tries to face the cruel deadline by creating images of a whole new kind and gradually takes her mother into a role-playing game in which each will slowly find her place. In a most troubling face-to-face, the small rituals, the stagings of everyday life, become part of the journey to exorcise the pain. Like a marabout, Charlotte Mano builds small theatres with bits of string, concocting a phantasmagorical world straight out of the garden of childhood. Then, in an ode to nature that protects her, and from which every day she builds herself, she imagines symbolic paintings filled with restorative virtues. From this two-voice exchange comes a new language. One photograph delivers the next in a form of cadavre exquis. By inventing micro-fictions, she opens a field of possibilities and, for a moment, is able to imagine that images will cast a spell at death. Beyond the incantatory magic, Charlotte Mano re-enchants her reality in order to accept and sublimate it. Poetry transcends the unacceptable and offers to the wound a resurrection.

Charlotte Mano (b.1990, south-west France) currently lives and works in Paris.

Find out more about Charlotte and her projects on https://www.charlottemano.com/

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Let's look back on Helsinki Photo Festival 2021 💭

The festival's pop-up gallery, Galleria Futura, set up shop in the heart of the city. Curious passersby and photography enthusiasts alike could come in - day or night - to experience Nordic photography. The space also operated as the festival office. Members of the helphototeam were always around to guide visitors through the exhibition, give them more information about the events or talk about art in general. On multiple evenings, the gallery was transformed in a studio from where we streamed the Helsinki Diplomatic Sessions.

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

www.helsinkiphotofestival.com

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Natalia Kepesz (@nataliakepesz), Poland. "Niewybuch".

Niewybuch gives an insight into the world of military camps, a phenomenon experiencing a massive influx in Poland in recent years. In addition to being taught military basics, children and young people are playfully indoctrinated into obedience, fearlessness and patriotism. The young soldiers appear like play figures, their frozen facial features concealing any emotion. Between fake blood, drill and the unreserved use of weapons, this work raises the question of the emotional effects of military education and addresses the tension between a child's search for adventure and the excesses of the Polish military cult. The series also addresses the theme of fearlessness. What happens to young people, who approach combat as a game without the terror that entails it in reality? What consequences does that have on their development?

Natalia Kepesz is a Polish photographer who lives and works in Berlin. She uses photography as a means of self-expression - she makes pictures for herself, to identify with hidden qualities of her character, to better understand her reality, and to express her interpretation of the world around her. By photographing, she transforms her own childhood memories. Growing up was always accompanied by the urge to discover something else.

Find out more about Natalia and her projects on https://www.nataliakepesz.de/

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

www.helsinkiphotofestival.com

#helsinkiphotofestival #photography #festival #photographyexhibition #exhibitionsinfinland #helsinkiart #contemporaryart #taide #kunst #artfestivals #helphoto21 #fearless #fineartphotography #discoverhelsinki #helsinki #galleriafutura

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Ilir Tsouko (@ilirtsouko), Albania. "Starting Over: From the Donbass to Chernobyl".

Since the outbreak of the war, 1.5 million internally displaced persons have fled eastern Ukraine. They lost their homes, jobs and their future. Desperate, some of them are drawn to a place that was itself the scene of a catastrophe: the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Two catastrophes, two fates: those who remained and the newcomers. People with the same story: victims of the two greatest disasters Ukraine has experienced. The villages are those over which the wind carried the radioactive cloud after the disaster. This is where the fields, schools, roads are and where the rain falls, making the region uneconomical to this day. This was a difficult fate for the people, who at that time lived almost exclusively on agriculture. At that time, the zones were set up to protect the inhabitants, but now they have become a burden. More than 30 years later, radiation is still really dangerous for the people and the restrictions on economic activity that have accompanied the creation of the zones are still preventing the development of the region.

Ilir Tsouko (b.1990) is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller based in Berlin and Tirana. He is working on long-term projects revolving around perception and creation of identity with its ever-changing shapes. Migration, social issues, and political events that can be reflected directly into the society are subjects that he mostly follows.

Find out more about Ilir and his projects on https://www.ilirtsouko.com/

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

www.helsinkiphotofestival.com

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Let's look back on Helsinki Photo Festival 2021 💭

For three months, Paalutori in Vantaa became an open-air exhibition! Vantaa Art Museum Artsi was wrapped up with the wonderful winning works of the international open call finalists. On the other side of the square, a 50 meter long picture wall was created.

The exhibition was themed 'fearless'. The magnificent pictures linked being fearless to coming to terms with and exploring the past, to fighting for one's freedom and rights, and to dealing with the pandemic.

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Special Guest Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme:

Special Guest Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

María Kjartans (@mariakjartansdottir), Iceland. "Connection".

Iceland is known to be quite an energetic place with all its magnificent forms of nature. Maria Kjartans explores the connection humans make with nature. She really likes to explore childhood innocence when you were 8, that fearless love for life and the connection to surroundings. Kjartans loves people and nature, especially when they come together. All these different energies can be found within one place or a being she describes as truly amazing.

“As much an explorer as a photographer, Maria’s fascination and obsession with life cycles and events, across cultures, dominate the subject matter of her pieces and drives her to visit often remote and unusual locations. The results are bewitching insights and stories that present the viewer with a captivating sense of discovery, honesty and empathy for her subjects.” - Elinor Olisa

Find out more about María and her work on http://www.mariakjartans.com/

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Alex McBride (@alex.mcbride), United Kingdom. "Artsakh Strong".

For centuries a cycle of bloodshed and displacement has echoed through Nagorno-Karabakh. In modern history, Armenian and Azeri struggle for control over the region fell dormant after the Bolshevik invasion and Karabakh’s incorporation into the USSR. After the fall of the Iron Curtain however, Armenia took control of the land in a bloody war that left more than a million Azeris homeless. While the territory remained internationally recognised as Azerbaijan, Karabakh was under Armenian control for almost 30 years. In late 2020, Azerbaijan reignited the dispute. The war that ensued simultaneously mirrored and juxtaposed the previous one. This time it was the Azeri that celebrated the war was declared won by their President. In Yerevan, Parliament and the Prime Minister's office were stormed by the wives, mothers and sons of the fallen - betrayed by the capitulation of the Prime Minister. While the war is over for now, a sustainable peace is remote. Within the Azeri soldiers, who remember from childhood the days when they were routed from their homes by Armenian forces, a blind fearlessness was formed. And while this fearlessness was glorified in the hearts and minds of Azerbaijan, its bloody consequences have only instilled the same bloodthirsty fearlessness in Armenia’s children, who may now dream to one day avenge the same brutality that they have suffered.

Alex McBride is a freelance photojournalist covering social, political and humanitarian issues. Having spent the past three years living and working in East Africa, he has now moved his base back to London.

Find out more about Alex and his projects on https://alexmcbride.com/

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

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Let's look back on Helsinki Photo Festival 2021 💭

The cultural centre Stoa in Eastern Helsinki was home to not one, but two of the festival's exhibitions! Outside, an impressive Art Wall could be admired - day and night. On grey days, photography enthusiasts go inside to take refuge from the rain and look at the magnificent pictures of a selection of this year's open call finalists.

The exhibition was themed 'fearless'. The winning projects linked the concept to dealing with anxiety, to the difference in perceiving reality, and to extreme and traditional customs.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Felix Schöppner (@felix.schoeppner), Germany. "Cognition".

In what way does human sensory perception take place in a high-tech world for connections outside of what is apparently possible? Perception is the recognition of an object or state in our immediate environment with the help of our 5 senses. Technical devices help us exceed and expans the biological limits. The perception of invisible subjects and states therefore often takes place first in an abstract way with values that are assigned to certain parameters and can be visualized based on this. The clear way of representing values is in a graphic, a drawing or a scaled model. Since size relationships play a decisive role here, in some cases you are forced to not display the relationships of objects proportionally to one another. This series deals with this topic by using terms from the fields of physics and astronomy and presenting them in simplified models. These are the ways we can perceive the world around us today. But for us to be at this point, it took pioneers who expanded the limits and made them tangible. The first astronauts paved the way for a completely new, undeveloped space. It demanded enormous willpower and fearlessness from them, as they could not foresee whether they would survive their journeys into space.

Felix Schöppner (b.1990, Germany) works mostly in the genre of still life with a link to sculpture and installation. His work impresses with a high degree of stringency and perfection, both in terms of content and implementation. For him, photography is part of a comprehensive process in dealing with questions of human perception.

Find out more about Felix and his projects on https://felixschoeppner.de/

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

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Winner International/Nordic Open Call Helsinki Pho

Winner International/Nordic Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Linda Bournane Engelberth (@lindabournane), Norway. "Outside the Binary".

Non-binary people have always existed, yet the terminology is new, and many people are confused about what non-binary really means. Non-binary people fall under the LGBTQ umbrella. Many non-binary people face a lot of discrimination in their environment all over the world. All the subjects in this project are brave and have faced their fears about being different. Many are activists and are proud to tell their stories. Only by openness we can face fear. And by standing strong together against people that discriminate. Many countries still make life dangerous by having laws against LGBTQ people. Non-binaries are attacked, harassed and get arrested in some places. Even in more open countries that embrace LGBTQ people through their law systems, non-binary people are facing discrimination, and many are still living difficult lives. Meeting other people in the same situation helps, and many non-binary people have strong and loving communities. Still the world needs to be educated to create more comprehension and to normalize the situation for people who don’t identify as gender binary. The whole series is 40 photos from all over the world.

Linda Bournane Engelberth is a Norwegian/Algerian artist based in Oslo and Berlin. Her work focuses on identity through personal and subjective narratives, as well as rural communities which are in flux.

Find out more about Linda and her projects on https://www.lindabournane.com/

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

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Let's look back on Helsinki Photo Festival 2021 💭

One of the festival's highlights was - without a doubt - the Nordic Village. For a period of three months, the beautiful art park on Hanaholmen @hanaholmen became even more impressive, as it showcased the works of talented Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and Estonian artists.

Moreover, the Finnish emerging photographer Svante Gullichsen presented a second solo exhibition titled 'fearless'. The magnificent project presents mental health issues by referring to the relation between human and nature as well as the fundamental relation between darkness and light.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Cristiano Volk (@cristiano_volk), Italy. "Laissez-Faire".

Imagine a living under the glow of artificial daylight, where reality is not experienced directly, but mediated through screens. Imagine a world so densely networked that all of the distinctions that help us make sense of time and place – interior and exterior, private and public, day and night – have collapsed into a neon-hued hallucination. Imagine the alienation of billions of subjects whose sole purpose is to act as vehicles for the exchange of commodities. This is the world described in Laissez-Faire. It may sound like a dystopian future, but it is our present. The crosshairs within which we might focus these observations, however, are historical ones. Laissez-faire capitalism has its roots in the political economist Adam Smith’s doctrine that human economic behaviour was subject to an underlying natural order which would be corrupted by any form of regulation. Volk’s photographs also hint at deeper and more insidious entanglements. It is not just the boundaries between interior and exterior that seem to dissolve in his images, but those that set us apart from the technologies upon which we depend. The electronic life that pulses through the city is nothing more nor less than our own desires projected back at us, holding us spellbound in a beautiful nightmare.

Cristiano Volk is an Italian photographer. His works have a critical view of social, political and cultural issues.

Find out more about Cristiano and his projects on https://www.cristianovolk.com/

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Winner International/Nordic Open Call Helsinki Pho

Winner International/Nordic Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Cletus Nwadike (@cletusphoto), Nigeria/Sweden. "Girl Struggle in Nigeria".

Some people in Nigeria do not think that girls should go to school. Some people are willing to kill girls who disagree. Schools have been burnt down and more than 2000 teachers killed. Many girls live in fear. When Nigeria got its independence in October 1960 the proportion of female students rose from 7.7% in 1960 to 45% in 2009. Education is the best way to move a nation forward and bestows on girls a disposition for a lifelong acquisition of knowledge, values, attitudes, competence, and skills. There are about 10,5 million children in our country that are out of school. Most of them are girls. The Nigerian society both historical and contemporary, has been dotted with peculiar cultural practices that do not encourage girl’s freedom, such as early marriage, wife-inheritance, and widowhood practices. The dominant narratives of religion in both colonial and post-colonial Nigerian society privilege men to the detriment of women. According to The Guardian issue number 20201211, the leader of the extremist group that abducted hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria six years ago has claimed responsibility for the mass abduction of 300 students in north-western Katsina state. The extremist group kidnapped 276 girls from their school dormitory in Chibok, in north-eastern Borno state, in April 2014 and about 100 are still missing.

Cletus Nelson Nwadike (b.1966, Nigeria) is a freelance photographer and a poet based in Sweden.

Find out more about Cletus and his projects on https://www.cletusnwadike.se/

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

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Let's look back on Helsinki Photo Festival 2021 💭

This summer, everyone who happened to stroll down Helsinginkatu was treated to some amazing photography. The pictures were put on display in collaboration with the Ebeneser Foundation's Kindergarten Museum and, as such, the exhibition was specifically curated for children.

The works were themed 'fearless' and linked the concept to having the strenght to persevere, to living in changing conditions and to the importance of education.

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Winner Open Call Nordic - Helsinki Photo Festival

Winner Open Call Nordic - Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Siri Ekker Svendsen (@siriekker), Norway. "All the Whisperings of the World".

This work examines the visual connections between the vulnerability of nature and the bodily effects of an allergic reaction, based on the Brazil nut tree and the artist's allergy. Through two trips to the Amazon and collaborations with the University of Oslo and a Swedish research team, Siri has worked on the connections between the body’s and the forest’s ecology, and how everything living is part of complex ecological systems. Both the Brazil nut tree and certain types of allergies are examples of nature's vulnerability, complexity and diversity. The work represents a journey and examines some of the diverse systems and invisible contexts we are part of through nature. It shows what we know is measurable, and compares it with phenomena that are not measurable in the same way. Pictured are the tree, its environment, the nut in magnification, and the allergic reaction the nut causes. On this journey from the macro level to a microscopic one, the human body is a link between external and internal realities. In the photographs the artist focuses on abstractions and visual connections and associations, where different magnitudes are equated and contrasted. Siri wants to contrast the measurable, scientific experience with that of belonging to a larger context of interconnected beings – an ecosystem.

Siri Ekker Svendsen is a visual artist from Norway. Her works are concerned with the relationship between nature, perception and consciousness, and the connection between the physical world and the human perception and imagination.

Find out more about Siri and her projects on http://www.siriekker.com/

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

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Matjaž Tančič (@matjaztancic), Slovenia. "Mars on Earth"

Space exploration is booming. China's space agency landed the first spacecraft on the far side of the moon, NASA is planning to send humans there once again as a part of its long-term strategy to reach Mars by the 2030s and billionaires such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have created private space businesses. Matjaž Tančič' project is interested in the idiosyncratic visionaries, often cash-strapped and working in the grey areas of the law, developing technologies for space travel and exploration. He followed the advancements of Mars colonisation research in China, United States and Europe. From Mars architects, doctors, farmers, engineers, home rocket builders and multi-billion start-ups developing the self sustainable Mars habitats. We are living in the future, now, on Earth.

Matjaž Tančič (b. 1982) is a lens-based artist working mainly on documentary and independent projects between China and Slovenia. His work explores the lines between documentary, portrait and art photography to engage with social and cultural issues. He likes to experiment within the photographic medium and is mainly known for his 3D stereography projects.

Find out more about Matjaž and his projects on http://matjaztancic.com/

The Helsinki Photo Festival (#HelPhoto) is an annual event showcasing Nordic and international photography in the Greater Helsinki area. Between July 7th and September 30th, the unique works of 50+ open call winners are exhibited at/in various outdoor and indoor locations.

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Let's look back on Helsinki Photo Festival 2021 💭

Keran Hallit, a centre offering space to create and develop innovative ideas, was transformed into an open-air photography exhibition. Ten of the festival's most popular pictures were displayed on large stands, designed by Anastasia Kravchenko (MA student at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture). The featured artists were Carla Kogelman (NL), Ryan Carter (CA), Matjaz Tancic (SI), Susana Girón (ES), Felix Schöppner (DE), Christian Bobst (CH), Linda Bournane Engelberth (DZ-NO), Charlotte Lakits (FR), Tom Price (UK) and Cletus Nwadike (NG-SE). Find out more about their magnificent projects on our website.

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Nikita Teryoshin (@teryoshi), Russia. "Nothing Personal - the Back Office of War".

Every day, we are confronted with pictures of war and destruction. Every year, more money is spent on arms. "Nothing Personal" shows the other side of war. The global defense busness is the complete opposite of a battlefield. It is an oversized playground for adults with drinks, finger food, and shiny weapons. Dead bodies are mannequins or pixels on the screen of a simulator. War is staged in an artificial environment in front of high-ranking ministers, heads of states, generals, and traders. Faces are deliberately not shown. It is not the artist’s intention to focus on a person but rather to show the system. The anonymized traders with weapons covering their heads allude to John Heartfield's anti-war drawing - Dangerous Dining Companions. Teryoshin likes the idea of this symbolism. In the worst case, you will find these weapons in civil wars, or in the hands of dictators oppressing their own people. Some companies are also working in the civil sector, however, and various developments can also be found in everyday life. The pictures have been taken at 13 highly exclusive defense exhibitions between 2016 and 2019 in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America.

Nikita Teryoshin is a Russian photographer based in Berlin. He describes his photography work as “street, documentary and everyday horror”.

Find out more about Nikita and his projects on https://nikitateryoshin.com/

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

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Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. The

Winner Open Call Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. Theme: Fearless.

Carla Kogelman (@carlakogelman), The Netherlands. "day 293".

“My brother has a rare blood disease for which he had a stem cell transplant in February. He was in the VUmc in Amsterdam for a month and when he came out there was corona. This made him extremely vulnerable. He did not feel safe in his own home with two adolescent sons, whom you can't and don't want to chain up. So, he called me. Henri lived with me for 7 weeks during the first lockdown. In the summer, the situation was safe enough to return home. When the summer vacation ended, the infections and the fear of corona rose again. In addition, Henri constantly feared graft-versus-host. A consequence of allogeneic stem cell transplantation can be graft-versus-host disease, which can be a life-threatening side effect. In graft-versus-host disease, the donor's immune cells (graft) attack the cells of the patient (host). Yes, he did get it. The skin turns into a pigment incontinence battlefield. The patient doesn't like that, but ... to be honest ... I like that. The day of the stem cell transplant is called day 0. As if you were born again and start a new life. From day 293, Henri lives with me again. He challenges himself even more and works on his resistance. Until he feels safe enough to return home"

Carla Kogelman (b.1961, Netherlands) captures daily life. Being around the same people for a long time, she becomes invisible. This gives her the opportunity to get an insight into the lives of her subjects and reach the real story underneath the surface.

Find out more about Carla and her projects on https://www.carlakogelman.nl/

The Helsinki Photo Festival (#HelPhoto) is an annual event showcasing Nordic and international photography in the Greater Helsinki area. Between July 7th and September 30th, the works of 50+ open call winners are exhibited in/at various locations.

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Let's look back on Helsinki Photo Festival 2021 💭

The iconic Finlandia Hall housed one of the festival's biggest exhibitions. Every winning project of the international open call was put on display and could be admired freely and around the clock. The works were all themed 'fearless' and dealt with humanity's ability to persevere in the hardest of conditions, with people's strength to be who they are and with the courageous struggle for one's identity.

Also exhibited was the thought-provoking work of last year's Portfolio Review winner, David Barreiro (ES). His project 'A Breach of Margins', focuses on the elements that embody ideas related to dominant constructions
of gender, social hierarchy and economic system.

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