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Portfolio Reviews 2020
Up next at Helsinki Photo Festival’s educational events is the annual Portfolio Reviews with a chance of winning as first prize a solo exhibition.

The event will be held on September, Sat 3rd at Ateljee in The National Museum of Finland, starting at 11:15 am and ending at 17:30 pm. Each review will last 20 minutes added with 5 minutes of change.

Confirmed reviewers are following photography experts:
Curt Richter (US) – Photographer and lecturer
Florence Montmare (SE/US) – Photographer
Carl-Mikael Ström (SE) – Visual artist
Rafael Rybczynki (DK) – Artistic Director Helphoto

Portfolio Reviews are open to photographers of all levels to showcase their work and get professional feedback. All genres are accepted. The event provides space for networking and can lead to exhibitions and much more. Opportunities to get constructive feedback, guidance and advice on career development.

What is expected: All participants are required to bring their photobook dummies, photo folders or prints. Also, can showcase them through their digital devices. The participants are expected to appear face-to-face and be in good health.

What winners will receive: The first prize winner of this year’s Portfolio Review will be granted the honour to be exhibited solo at the Helsinki Photo Festival 2023. The winner and up to three runners-up will be also featured in the festival’s online gallery and social media channels. The highest voted portfolio will also be offered the opportunity to participate in the limited edition print program at www.helphoto.com.

Selection of the winners: During the portfolio review sessions, each reviewer will select the best portfolio in his opinion. The winners will be announced online as well as contacted via mail by Sep 7, 2022.

Portfolio reviews are paid sessions: 35 euros per review/project. Participants can book one review or choose more reviews.

How to enter the contest: Registration at linktr.ee/helsinkiphotofestival portfolio reviews link via Typeform or just scan to QR code and fill out your details and pay for as many reviews as you want to participate with our experts. Registration deadline: September 2nd at 23.59.

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Austrian Ulrike Koeb (b. 1959, Vorarlberg) is a Vienna-based food and still life photographer. Her interest in photography is originally sparked by a love of detail and passion for colour, light and style. After her training the Viennese photo studio Liewehr she attended masterclasses in still-life photography by Charles Purvis in Maine and Hans Neleman in New Mexico, USA.

In addition, to her many commercial magazine- and book projects, Koeb’s passion lies in artistic photography. She often creates compositions with food and disposed objects and garbage found (especially from plastic) that she uses to create works for raising awareness on throwaway culture, with no cares about the consequences. Her newest solo exhibition “Reduce, reuse and recycle” will be premiered at Helsinki Photo Festival 22 with support of the Austrian Embassy Helsinki. 

Ulrike Koeb’s photographs have appeared in numerous publications and have also featured in exhibitions in Muscat, London, Venice and Budapest.

Solo- and group exhibitions:
1995 – Oman in Platinum Palladium prints, Muscat, Oman    
2006 – attic, Hittisau, Austria 
2011 – table manners, Gwangju, South Korea  
2012 – room 333, Breda, The Netherlands
2016 – arte Laguna Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2016 – photo Vienna MAK, Vienna, Austria
2018 – Vienna design week, Vienna, Austria
2019 – food design, acf Budapest, Hungary
2022 – canvas art fair, Venice, Italy

Bibliography / Publications
Food design XL, Springer Verlag
Fashion and Jewelry 1920-1970, Arnoldsche
Cooking with the power of nature, Brandstaetter
How we eat, Boehlau/Vandenhoeck
Veggie Starts, Brandstaetter

Exhibition opening is August 3 from 16-18 at Marski. Thereafter the exhibition can be visited daily from 9am-21pm.  Admission is free. More info will be posted on our website in the helnews section.

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More about the artists, visit her website: Ulrike Koeb

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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. 

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Karamzininranta 4, 00100 Helsinki
tel. 09 40241

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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.

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