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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Nordic Village Finalists announced at Helsinki Photo Festival 2021
We are pleased to announce the winners of Nordic Village of the theme Fearless at Helsinki Photo Festival 2021. All selected artists will be exhibited from Jul 7-Sep 30 at the Art Park at Hanaholmen – Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre in Espoo.

The international jury of experts congratulates the winners.

Nordic Village is a 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 and artists from the Nordics.

More information about the program schedule to be released in the coming weeks. Helsinki Photo Festival takes place from July 7-September 30, 2021.

Open Call winners 2021 – Nordic Village I Fearless I #helphoto21

Ingerid Jordal / NO
Maria Konstanse Bruun / NO
Angelika Kollin / EE
Lisa Pram / DK
Marie Bentzon / DK
Anne Lass / DK
Sari Soininen / FI
Jussi Puikkonen / FI
Kicki Lundgren / SE

Open Call winners 2021 – Nordic Village & Intl. I Fearless I #helphoto21

Siri Ekker Svendsen / NO
Linda Bournane Engelberth / DZ-NO
Rebecca Simons / FI
Anna Kuokkanen / FI
Cletus Nwadike / NG-SE
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The most voted artists were:

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

Anna Kuokkanen (FI) “From the shadows of human trafficking to an activist – Itohan Okundaye’s story”

 

Rebecca Simons (FI) “Letters from the past”

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

Jussi Puikkonen (FI) “Arctic Drifting”

See you at the exhibition at the Art Park at Hanaholmen – Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre in Espoo. 
 

 

 

Finalists at Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

Helsinki Photo Festival’s international jury is pleased to announce the winners of the festival’s theme Trust. All the submissions who made into the shortlist were so extraordinary brilliant that the jury was struggling to identify the finalists of this year’s edition. The jury congratulates all winners from 5 continents and thanks all artists who participated in this year’s contest. In the coming days we will reach out to all winners and inform them about the next steps. 

List of open call winners I Trust I #helphoto20

Cocoa Laney, US

Nuno Serrão, PT

Oskar Alvarado, ES

Lauren Forster, GB

Anton Ivanov, RU

Ciro Battiloro, IT

Christian Bobst, CH

Robin Alysha Clemens, NL

Ana María Arévalo Gosen, VE

Marlena Waldthausen, DE

Qingjun Huang, CN

Elizabeth M Sanders, US

Shinwook Kim, KR

Alex McBride, GB

Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir, IS

Kamil Matziol, PL

Yolanda del Amo, US

Alain Schroeder, BE

Mary Gelman, RU

Dorota Stolarska, PL

Sasha Maslov, US

Tom Atwood, US

Teodelina Detry, AR

Elena Kollatou and Leonidas Toumpanos, GR

Carrie and Eric Tomberlin, US

Margeaux Walter, US

Arnold Grojean, BE

Gordon Spooner, FR

Anna Ellen Hamlet, SE

Laura Liverani, IT

Melissa Ianniello, IT

Gloria Oyarzabal, ES

M’hammed Kilito, MA

Noel Bowler, IE

Shirin Abedi, DE

Reiko Ishida, NO

Fotografiepolak, BE

Elise Corten, BE

Eric Hanson, US

Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Andreas Haubjerg, DK

Heikki Humberg, FI

Alexis Vasilikos, GR

Dilla Djalil Daniel, ID

Cop Shiva, IN

Chimera Singer, US

Silke Koch, DE

Mogens Kjoeller, DK

Maria Lax, FI

Nadja Hallström, SE

Ami Vitale, US

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Nordic Village at Helsinki Photo Festival 2020

The Nordic Village is an exhibition format supporting emerging and groundbreaking Nordic photographers. Since 2018 this project has selected and showcased format has showcased and nominated +20 artists from all five Nordic countries and arranged artist-talks, nordic exhibitions and seminars with support of Nordic embassies. The artists were selected through a jury of curators responsible for the festival’s open call contest. In 2020, the Nordic Village exhibition will be set up in the outdoor premises of the National Museum of Finland. 

List of Nordic Village winners I Trust I #helphoto20

Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir, IS
Magnus Cederlund, SE
Carl-Mikael Ström, SE
Anna Ellen Hamlet, SE
Renja Nurmi, FI
Reiko Ishida, NO
Hans Jørgen Ro, NO
Geir Moseid, NO
Mogens Kjoeller, DK
Tomas Olsen, FI
Maria Lax, FI
Nadja Hallström, SE