Shortlisted at Helsinki Photo Festival 2021
Helsinki Photo Festival has received a record number of 428 applications from 55 countries for the open call with the theme Fearless. The association is proud to announce 96 shortlisted candidates who will move further into the second round of voting to decide this year’s finalists. The talent platform Nordic Village announces 20 shortlisted authors. Our jury has been selecting only a handful of winning images out of a total of 5307 submitted photographs. The next step for the jury will be to select the best 50 authors, and 10 Nordic artists, whose photos will be curated and exhibited at the festival from July 7-September 30, 2021.

Shortlisted – international I Fearless I #helphoto21
Felix Schöppner / DE
Irina Kovalchuk / RU
Matjaz Tancic / SI
Jake Eshelman / US
Maggie Shannon / US
Alex McBride / UK
Kristen Joy Emack / US
He Bo / CN
Ashkan Shabani / IR
Younes Mohammad / IQ
Noelle Mason / US
Javier Corso / ES
Stephen Yang / US
Natalia Kepesz / PL
Frank Schultze / DE
Ingeborg Everaerd / NL
Maria de la Paz Gutierrez / AR
Ed Kashi / US
Paola Jimenez / PE
Filippo Venturi / IT
David Verberckt / BE
Liam Bailey / UK
John Angerson / UK
Maria Gruzdeva / RU
Gabriele Cecconi / IT
Moritz Küstner / DE
Ryan Carter / CA
William Lakin / UK
Sergei Stroitelev / RU
Simon Murphy / UK
R.J. Kern / US
Nikita Teryoshin / RU
Stef Steffany / IT
Repko / NL
Bertha Wang / HK
Jasper Kettner / DE
Alain Schroeder / BE
Ilir Tsouko / AL
Charlotte Lakits / FR
Laura Pannack / UK
Sebastian Steveniers / BE
Carla Kogelman / NL
Merlini Francesco / IT
Christian Bobst / CH
Cletus Nwadike / NG-SE
Sabine Findeisen / DE
Ciro Battiloro / IT
Imane Djamil / MA
Cop Shiva / IN
Rafael Heygster / DE
Kicki Lundgren / SE
Carlo Bevilacqua / IT
Nelson Morales / MX
Maciej Czepiel / PL
Natan Dvir / IL
Olivier Lovey / CH
Tom Price / UK
Mihai Barabancea / RO
Antonina Baygusheva / RU
Jannike Stelling / DE
Katia Repina / RU
Katerina Tsakiri / GR
Joanna Borowiec / PL
Carlotta Guerra / IT
Laura J. Bennett / US
Susana Girón / ES
Rebecca Simons / FI
Elena Helfrecht / DE
Rosy Martin & Verity Welstead / UK
Alessio Maximilian Schroder / AT
Zmicer Waynowski / BY
Melissa Ianniello / IT
Wouter le Duc / NL
Andrei Liankevich / BY
Peter Pflügler / AT
Maria Konstanse Bruun / NO
Cristiano Volk / IT
Faiham Ebna Sharif / BD
Siri Ekker Svendsen / NO
Róbert László Bácsi / HU
Rachel Brown / UK
Arnaud Montagard / FR
Oğulcan Arslan / TR
Anna Grevenitis / US
Thomas Victor & Felix Adler / DE
Tatiana Ostrovskaya / RU
Alexander Robertson / UK
Jooeun Bae / KR
Alex Fitch / US
Linda Bournane Engelberth / DZ-NO
James Emmerman / US
Charlotte Mano / FR
Kai Yokoyama / JP
Charlotte Mariën / BE
Sina Niemeyer / DE
Anna Kuokkanen / FI

Shortlisted – Nordic Village I Fearless I #helphoto21

Ingerid Jordal / NO
Angelika Kollin / EE
GHs / IS
Lisa Pram / DK
Sari Soininen / FI
Cletus Nwadike / NG-SE
Kicki Lundgren / SE
Rebecca Simons / FI
Lotta Lemetti / FI
Vilhelm Björndahl / SE
Maria Konstanse Bruun / NO
Siri Ekker Svendsen / NO
Marie Bentzon / DK
Jussi Puikkonen / FI
Anne Lass / DK
Outi Neuvonen / FI
Katrine Noer / DK
Linda Bournane Engelberth / DZ-NO
Armand Tamboly / EG-SE
Anna Kuokkanen / FI

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The most voted artists were:

Nikita Teryoshin (RU) “Nothing Personal – the back office of war”

Alex McBride (UK) “Artsakh Strong”

Linda Bournane Engelberth (DZ-NO) “Outside the Binary”

Gabriele Cecconi (IT) “TiàWùK”

Natalia Kepesz (PL) “Niewybuch”

Cletus Nwadike (NG-SE) “Girls struggle in Nigeria”

Carlo Bevilacqua (IT) “Queer Divine”

Sabine Findeisen (DE) “What We Want”

Javier Corso (ES)
“Matagi”

Winners will be announced 28.4.2021. Stay tuned!