Start your art collection with Selected Darlings edition

Photography transcends mere image capture. It serves as a means of immortalising moments, emotions, and narratives. Beyond its artistic and sentimental value, investing in photography presents distinctive opportunities and benefits. It fosters a connection to the artistic zeitgeist, while holding the potential for financial growth, and appreciation. The exclusivity of owning a limited edition print enhances its value and desirability, rendering it an appealing prospect for investment.

In our continuous pursuit to engage global audiences, in 2021, we embarked on yet another ambitious venture. With support from the Nordisk Kulturfond, we initiated a limited edition print program designed to empower Nordic artists to showcase and market their works to collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide. 

Since its inception, our program has attracted a cohort of exceptionally talented emerging artists from the Nordic region, complemented by a select few international luminaries. These artists have garnered recognition through exhibitions at esteemed galleries, museums, and prestigious photography festivals, solidifying their status as promising talents in the global art scene.

These are just a few of the esteemed artists we collaborated with through our limited edition program: Florence Montmare, Sari Soininen, Angelika Kollin, Svante Gullichsen, Oscar Alvarado, Jooeun Bae, Carl-Mikael Ström, Dilla Djalil-Daniel, Anne Lass, Stig Marlon Weston, Tom Price, and Maria Kjartans. These photographers have been prominently featured in renowned publications such as Time, The Guardian, Die Zeit, FT Weekend, British Journal of Photography, Liberte, Helsingin Sanomat, and many others. Currently, photographic artist Sari Soininen‘s work is being exhibited at the Lahti Museum of Visual Arts MALVA from November 3, 2023, to April 7, 2024. In addition, Angelika Kollin‘s long-term project “Parenthood” has been chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Sony World Photography Award 2024. Furthermore, Svante Gullichsen‘s work is set to be featured at Tallinn’s Fotografiska in the spring of 2024.

The limited edition works of these esteemed artists, along with many others we have proudly collaborated with, have already been acquired by prestigious private and public collections spanning across Germany, France, Finland, the United States, Canada, Japan, Indonesia, Sweden, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.

Our collection of limited edition prints featuring the talented artists mentioned above is truly captivating! To showcase this exclusive collection, we curated a travelling group exhibition titled “Selected Darlings”, which previously graced renowned venues such as the world’s oldest auction house, Stockholms Auktionsverk in Sweden, as well as Finlandia Hall and West Terminal t1 in Helsinki, Finland.

Now, proudly in collaboration with Arilyn’s Virtual Art Galleries, we are presenting the whole exhibition virtually, accessible through any internet browser anywhere. Prints are available framed and unframed in two different sizes. Note that once editions sell out, we will not produce any reprints.

You can experience the virtual exhibition “Selected Darlings” via the link below: www.visit.virtualartgallery.com/helphoto-selected-darlings

Please note that our webshop has moved to www.holvi.com/shop/helphoto

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Helsinki Photo News magnifies photography. The new Journal of Contemporary Photography introduces 50 International emerging artists and iconic David Lynch.

The magazine covers all artists and projects Helsinki Photo Festival has produced during 2023. Our Journal of Contemporary photography introduces 50 International emerging artists and iconic David Lynch.

Polycopies & Co book fair helped us to distribute the publication to festival-goers during Paris Photo 23 in France. Now Helsinki Photo News is finally released in Finland! Get your rare copy now. The magazine can be found at University of Helsinki, Aalto University, Hanken – School of Economics, University of the Arts Helsinki, Cafe Gastro, Fotonordic Helsinki and many more places.

The magazine features following artists:
Rebecca Bowring (CH); Chantal Pinzi (IT); JJ Lorenzo (ES); Lys Arango (ES); Sitara Thalia Ambrosio (DE); Uschi Groos (DE); Alon Skuy (ZA); Annamaria Belloni (IT); Byron Smith (US); Verena Andrea Prenner (AT); Hendra Eka (ID); Emanuele Occhipinti (IT); Julia Wimmerlin (UA); Filippo Venturi (IT); Robin Hinsch (DE); Giles Clarke (UK); Pierpaolo Mittica (IT); Alisa Martynova (RU); Yannis Zindrilis (GR); Seok-Woo Song (KR); Ernst Coppejans (NL); Ingeborg Everaerd (NL); Beniamino Pisati (IT); Alice Mann (ZA); Karianne Bueno (NL); Cindy Blažević (CA); Alan Gignoux (US); Magda Gibelli (VE); Elisa Mariotti (IT); Alain Schroeder (BE); Catherine Lemblé (BE); Sarah Mei Herman (NL); Fernanda Soto Mastrantonio (CL); Antonio Pérez (ES); Florence Goupil (PE); Laara Dashti (FR); Thomas Victor (DE); Natalya Saprunova (RU) and Patrick Junker & Jonathan Terlinden (DE-FI).

Nordic Village features work of the Nordic artists Björn Nilsson (Sweden), Rolf-Göran Åström (Sweden), Sofi Lundin (Sweden, based in Uganda), Emmi Roosling (Sweden), Maija Bondar (Finland), Mikkel Hørlyck (Denmark), Maja Nydal Eriksen (Denmark), Haakon Sand (Norway), Aija Svensson (Finland) and Darina Rodionova (Finland).

The magazine is available as a physical print (68 pages, 272 grams. Price: 7 €) and digital edition. The digital version will be positioned as a premium product to be released on a subscription platform in the UK spring 2024.

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

Breaking news! We delighted to announce that all the winners of the open call competition themed Courage will be exhibited at the Sanoma House from October 4-29, 2023. Free entry.

Sanoma House is open Mon-Fri from 7am to 8pm, Sat-Sun from 9 am to 8 pm.

We live in turbulent times: climate change, pandemic, war, and constant violation of human rights. All this calls for courage. Courage can come in many forms, whether it be the ability to face pain or grief with strength or the quality shown by those who take risks and face danger. According to the jury member Emanula Mirabelli, “courage is the primary engine to fight injustices all over the world and to conquer new achievements for everyone”.

Opening October 4, 2023 at 5 p.m.

The opening ceremony inaugurated by the Artistic Director of the festival Rafael Rybczynski, and speeches by renowned scholar and photographer Stefan Bremer and groundbreaking talent Svante Gullichsen.

The exhibition is supported by Finland’s biggest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.

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Helsinki Photo Festival (#HelPhoto) is an annual event showcasing international photography in the Greater Helsinki area. More info on artists, exhibitions and events: www.helsinkiphotofestival.com

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Helsinki Photo Festival’s educational highlight of the year, the annual Nordic seminar with prominent Nordic visual artists, curators, photography teachers, photo editors, gallerists and writers will be organised on September 29, 2023.

Language: English

SEMINAR SPEAKERS

🇩🇰 Søren Pagter (DK) – Head of Photojournalism education, Danish School of Media and Journalism
🇩🇰 Mikkel Hørlyck (DK) – Photojournalist and visual artist
🇸🇪 Dr. Wiktoria Michałkiewicz (SE/PL) – Curator, writer, journalist & artist agent
🇳🇴 Dr. Antonio Cataldo (NO) – Artistic Director, Fotogalleriet Foundation, Oslo
🇫🇮 Susanna Luoto (FI) – Curator, Gallery Heino. Independent producer and writer
🇮🇸 Krummi (IS) – Icelandic photographer, one of five Futures Nordic Talents

Time: 10:00-16:00
Place:  ANNANTALO – ARTS CENTRE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
www.annantalo.fi

Program
The event starts with registration at 9.30, and the seminar program is 10-16, incl. lunch and breaks for coffee.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
9.30 Coffee and registration
10.00 Start of the seminar program
12.30–13.30 Lunch
16.00 End of the seminar

Registration and fees
EARLY BIRD  https://tinyurl.com/47snmuxn
The registration for on-site attendance ends at midnight on Thursday, 28th of September, 2023.
Price: 29 Euros.

STUDENT      https://tinyurl.com/3u2rptxv 
The registration for attendance for students is discounted. Students need to show their valid student card upon purchase
Price: 17 euros.

NORMAL TICKET  https://tinyurl.com/yfr25wtz
The registration is at the door on Friday, 29th of September, 2023.
Price: 34 Euros.

UNDER 15 for free     https://tinyurl.com/3sffvme6
For attendance under the age of 15, the entrance fee is free.

! Please note that registration is binding and that the participation fee is not refundable. If you get an obstacle, your registration can be moved to another person!

Register here

The seminar is supported by Kulturfonden för Finland och Denmark, Kulturfonden för Finland och Norge, Kulturfonden Island-Finland and Sparbanksstiftelsen Esbo-Grankulla. The Nordic Seminar is a project by Helsinki Photo Festival. 

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Curated photo exhibition in Unioninkatu 44!​

In collaboration with the Finnish Museum of Natural History LUOMUS, Helsinki Photo Festival is overjoyed to present a photo exhibition at the fence of Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden. The curated group exhibition will present the international winners of the theme Courage and take place outdoors at the garden’s fence on Unioninkatu 44 until October 30, 2023. The exhibition is accessible 24/7 to the general public.

Photo Festival is a visual arts event focused on photography opened August 5 and will end October 30. The sixth edition on the theme Courage is exhibited in the metropolitan area. The event is held annually bringing every edition a new art experiences to Greater Helsinki. In a period of 12 weeks curated photography exhibitions can be discovered in public spaces, popup events and at cultural institutions. The festival presents 50 artists from 24 countries with new works which have not been shown before in Finland.

The winners are from a variety of genres and were selected by an international jury. In 2023, the festival received 462 submissions comprising a total of 6555 images from 67 different countries. From these submissions, the jury chose 40 winners for the international open call category, along with an additional 10 emerging talents from the Nordic region. 

The exhibition at Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden featured the before-mentioned 40 international open call winners.

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Meet the Open Call Finalists at Helsinki Photo Festival 2023

The 40 international winners for the theme Courage at Helsinki Photo Festival 2023 are now selected and can be found listed below. All finalists will be showcased in exhibitions around Greater Helsinki from August 4-October 30, 2023. Some exhibition sites will start at the beginning of the festival while a few will start later. We will give more information about locations and program schedule in the upcoming weeks.

The Nordic Village, a talent platform dedicated to artists from the Nordic countries is proud to announce 10 Nordic winners. The Nordic Village photo exhibition will take place for the third time in 2023 at Hanaholmen, Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre in Espoo.

Congratulations to all winners!

Open call winner / International / Helsinki Photo Festival 2023

Rebecca Bowring / CH
Chantal Pinzi / IT
JJ Lorenzo / ES
Lys Arango / ES
Sitara Thalia Ambrosio / DE
Uschi Groos / DE
Alon Skuy / ZA
Annamaria Belloni / IT
Byron Smith / US
Verena Andrea Prenner / AT
Hendra Eka / ID
Emanuele Occhipinti / IT
Rolf-Göran Åström / SE
Julia Wimmerlin / UA
Filippo Venturi / IT
Robin Hinsch / DE
Giles Clarke / GB
Pierpaolo Mittica / IT
Alisa Martynova / RU
Yannis Zindrilis / GR
Seok-Woo Song / KR
Ernst Coppejans / NL
Ingeborg Everaerd / NL
Beniamino Pisati / IT
Alice Mann / ZA
Karianne Bueno / NL
Cindy Blažević / CA
Alan Gignoux / US
Magda Gibelli / VE
Elisa Mariotti / IT
Alain Schroeder / BE
Catherine Lemblé / BE
Sarah Mei Herman / NL
Fernanda Soto Mastrantonio / CL
Antonio Pérez / ES
Florence Goupil / PE
Patrick Junker & Jonathan Terlinden / DE-FI
Laara Dashti / FR
Thomas Victor / DE
Natalya Saprunova / RU

Open call winner / Nordic Village / Helsinki Photo Festival 2023

Björn Nilsson / SE
Haakon Sand / NO
Rolf-Göran Åström / SE (Winner, both internationally and Nordic)
Sofi Lundin / SE
Mikkel Hørlyck / DK
Aija Svensson / FI
Maija Bondar / FI
Emmi Roosling / SE
Darina Rodionova / FI
Maja Nydal Eriksen / DK

Kyrö x Kimmo Syväri popup exhibition

Kyrö – like most of the Finnish population – was conceived and born in a sauna. The stars were aligned as a bottle of rye whisky was opened. The five friends having a sauna and the sip from the bottle started to ponder why no one in Finland was making rye whisky despite rye playing such a huge role in Finnish history and tradition. So, they decided to start a distillery making rye whiskies. The idea seemed like a great one even in the morning, and that is where the story of Kyrö began in 2012. Kyrö has since the beginning had a strong and somewhat controversial visual brand identity. No brand truly comes to life without a unique visual presence. And for that visual presence, the black and white butts, the picturesque take on the small town of Isokyrö, all the Kyrö people and fun stuff, the delicious product photos, the whole deal, Kyrö owes a big thanks to Kimmo Syväri.

Kimmo Syväri is a Helsinki-based photographer, entrepreneur and creative thinker. He has been closely involved in the visual storytelling of Kyrö Distillery Company since 2013, almost from the very birth of the company.

“I wanted to portray the brand in an authentic yet personal Finnish way. Finnishness to me is quirky, odd and a bit dangerous. You know the moment when Dorothy realizes she is not in Sweden anymore type of thing? Kind of “after all, you never know when you are going to die so might as well embrace the moment”- mentality. I feel I was very fortunate to land this collaboration. The right people came together at the right time. I just happened to be there with them.”

Indeed, it’s all about great minds thinking alike: it takes a dreamer and a darer to recognize others with the same take on life. After all, a great visual would be a lot less without the story, and the story would not be complete without the visual interpretation of it.

In collaboration with Kyrö Distillery Helsinki Photo Festival presents a popup exhibition with Helsinki-based photographer and creative thinker Kimmo Syväri. He has been closely involved in the visual storytelling of Kyrö since the beginning of 2012. The exhibition is open now for public and ends February 18th at our popup space in the West Terminal 1 in Jätkäsaari.

www.kyrodistillery.fi
www.helsinkiphotofestival.com

Exhibition will take place at the Helsinki West Terminal T1 (Länsiterminaali T1) in Jätkäsaari from February 2-18, 2023 (Sun-Wed 11.00-18.00, Thu-Sat 11.00-23.00).

Beside Kyrö x Kimmo Syväri popup exhibition do not miss the opportunity to see Lynch’s perplexing but alluring photographic art in person this spring! We will close our door February 28, 2023!

This year, Helsinki Photo Festival celebrates its sigth anniversary with two extraordinary exhibitions: the retrospective show featuring artists from more than fifty countries and the must-see Infinite Deep exhibition by David Lynch! The retrospective exhibition of the festival presents all the themes displayed from 2018 to 2022: Love, Anarchy, Trust, Fearless and Believe

The exhibition will take place in Helsinki’s iconic Länsiterminaali T1 (West Terminal T1), where the vibes are certainly in concord with the atmospheric Infinite Deep. Designed by Gunnar Taucher, the building was completed as a port warehouse in 1941. In 1992, it was decided to convert the building into a passenger terminal serving Tallinn’s shipping traffic and it was opened on May Day 1995. Currently, the building is planned to be demolished by end of 2023 and be replaced by a new, taller terminal building by 2026. Meanwhile, the Helsinki Photo Festival converted it for several months into a cultural hub – a democratic space for celebrating photography and visual culture.

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