The exhibition is hosted by Finlandia Gallery from August 1-31st August, 22 at Pikku-Finlandia (Little Finlandia), while the city’s iconic Finlandia Hall is closed for refurbishment. Little Finlandia is a temporary venue designed by architecture students from Aalto University, enjoying high popularity among residents and visitors of Helsinki.

The project is developed by Helsinki Photo Festival and supported by Nordisk Kulturfond. Limited edition prints are available at festival’s webshop: www.helphoto.com

Shortly in Finnish:
Helsinki Photo Festival 2022 – Selected Darlings valokuvanäyttely. Nordisk Kulturfondin tukeman näyttelyn toteuttaa Helsinki Photo Festival.

Selected Darlings valokuvanäyttely esittelee eksklusiivisen erän ekskliusiivisiä printtejä, palkituilta pohjoismaisilta, sekä kansainvälisiltä kuvataiteilijoilta. Näyttelyssä on nähtävissä Sari Soinisen, Svante Gullichsenin, Florence Montmaren, Carl-Mikael Strömin, Jooeun Baen, Dilla Djalil-Danielin sekä monen muun taiteilijan valittuja teoksia. Nordisk Kulturfondin tukeman näyttelyn toteuttaa Helsinki Photo Festival. 

Little Finlandia
Karamzininranta 4, 00100 Helsinki
tel. 09 40241

FINLANDIA CAFE&WINE
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri 8-21
Sat 11-21
Sun 12-18

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Diane Meyer‘s work has long been defined by explorations into the physical, social and psychological qualities that characterize place. These investigations have taken various forms throughout her career. Just as different locations have different defining features, her work frequently changes genres and mediums in accordance with the conceptual framework in which she is working. Meyer is interested in experimentation and as such, have produced a wide range of projects using different materials including an installation based around the notion of the American West as an invented, mythological space; a large scale photography based project focusing on transportation issues and carless-ness in Los Angeles, a series of installations taken in the sleeper car of a cross-country and several site specific installations in various cities related to local histories.

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

The images were taken in the city center as well as the outskirts of city where Meyer followed the former path of the wall through suburbs and forests. She was particularly interested in photographing locations where no visible traces of the actual wall remain but where one can still see subtle clues of its previous existence. These clues include incongruities in the architecture that occurred as new structures were built on newly opened land parcels, changes in streetlights, or newer vegetation. Often the embroidered sections of the image run along the horizon line forming an unnatural separation that blocks the viewer. This aspect of the sewing emphasizes the unnatural boundaries created by the wall itself. The sewing, which is soft and domestic provides a literal contrast to the concrete of the wall and a metaphorical contrast to its symbolism. As the scale of the stitches remains the same, the overall size of the image determines the amount of detail captured in the embroidery with the larger pieces in the series having over 30,000 individual stitches.

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

Helsinki Photo Festival Portfolio Review will take place on Saturday 3rd September 2022 at The National Museum, Helsinki. The first prize is a solo exhibition in the forthcoming year’s festival edition. Join and reserve your seat to learn more and have a chance to win the main award. More info will be posted soon on our website in the helnews section.

www.helsinkiphotofestival.com/helnews

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

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

Beware of summer opening hours. Admission free except for Jussi Hellsten.
Tue-Sat 10am-5pm. Exceptionally, Mon 4.7. and Sun 21.8. from 10am to 5 pm.

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Arianne Clément “The Art Aging” at Helsinki Photo Festival

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

Helsinki Photo Festival presents solo popup exhibition of Canadian photographer Arianne Clément “The Art of Aging” at Gallery Futura in the West Terminal 1 in Jätkäsaari from January 12-30, 2023. The exhibition was produced for Helsinki Photo Festival 2022 and showcased first in Helsinki’s Cultural Center Stoa from June 28-August 14, 2022. Also, the exhibition was part of the official program of Helsinki Pride 2022. The exhibition “The Art of Aging” by Arianne Clément is curated by Rafael Rybczynski. 

Exhibition was supported by the Canadian Embassy to Finland. In 2022, Canada and Finland celebrated 75 years of diplomatic relations.

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We have received 309 applications from 47 countries. Helsinki Photo Festival is proud to announce 80 shortlisted candidates who will move further into the second round of voting. List see below.

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

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

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

Shortlisted entrants! Helsinki Photo Festival 2022 BELIEVE

Alfonso de Gregorio (IT)
Paolo Quadrini (IT)
Liza Ambrossio (MX)
Vincenzo Parisi (IT)
Lisa Lindqvist Liljedahl (SE)
Anton Roland Laub (RO)
Myriam Abdelaziz (US)
MAP6 Collective (UK)
Zsófia Pályi (HU)
Guillaume Martial (FR)
David Verberckt (BE)
Ligia Popławska (PL)
Ethan Murphy (CA)
Maria Feck (DE)
Antonio Denti (IT)
Tomasz Kawecki (PL)
Aurélie Scouarnec (FR)
Eric Zeigler (US)
Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo (CO)
Cemre Yeşil Gönenli (TR)
Alvin Ng (SG)
Giacomo d’Orlando (IT)
Linda Zhengova (CZ)
Hannah Kiviranta (CA)
Eckart Bartnik (DE)
Dirk Schlottmann (DE)
Angelika Kollin (EE)
Elena Helfrecht (DE)
Tim Smith (CA)
Paulo Simão (PT)
Forest Kelley (US)
Rosa Rodriguez (ES)
Anna Katharina Zeitler (DE)
Mauro De Bettio (IT)
Rafael Heygster (DE)
Oscar Scott Carl (DK)
Tetsuo Kashiwada (JP)
Krummi (IS)
Lisbeth Luft (DE)
Tayla Nebesky (US)
Natalia Kepesz (PL)
Kristina Barker (US)
Roger Grasas (ES)
Dilla Djalil Daniel (ID)
Steff Gruber (CH)
Oliv. (PL)
Ian Cheibub (BR)
Chiara Negrello (IT)
Johannes Bosgra (NL)
Barbara Boissevain (US)
Fernando Montiel Klint (MX)
Maria Siorba (GR)
Neil Kramer (US)
Torgrim Halvari (NO)
Hyunmin Ryu (KR)
Steffen Knop (DE)
Vaste Programme (IT)
Julius Matuschik (DE)
Artem Humilevskiy (UA)
Emile Gostelie (NL)
Line Ørnes Søndergaard (NO)
Marzena Hans (PL)
Hiro Tanaka (JP)
Paccarik Orue (PE)
Eva & Jet Faché & Pascua (NO)
Julia Klewaniec (PL)
Nicola Zolin (IT)
Natacha de Mahieu (BE)
Alain Schroeder (BE)
Katerina Churbakova (RU)
Magnus Terhorst (DE)
Seok-Woo Song (KR)
Patrick Junker and Michael Galian (DE)
Kacper Kowalski (PL)
Heidi Kirjavainen (FI)
Michelle Martins (BR)
Natalya Saprunova (RU)
Jenna Garrett (US)
Sergei Stroitelev (RU)
Jana Hartmann (DE)


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