Helsinki Photography Festival
Helsinki Photography Festival is a triannual event organised by the Union of Artist Photographers. The festival presents a wide range of photographic art through changing themes. Apart from exhibitions, the festival also includes seminars, meetings with artists, workshops and portfolio meetings.

The 11th edition of the festival organized January 22 – May 24, 2009.

For more information please see:

www.hpf.fi


History and Background

Helsinki Photography Festival has its roots in the early 1980s in the Valokuvataide-Arkitaide (Photographic Art – Everyday Art) events organized in Helsinki. The engaged and spirited members of the Photographic Society in Finland gathered around the arrangements around every three to four years. The happenings were organized, in all, nine times and are the oldest photography festival in Finland.

In the early 1980s, the festivals aimed at reaching out to a broader audience, in times when photography, as an art form, still was marginally positioned. In the 1990s, the festivals were already clearly directed towards a public that was interested in questions concerning photo-based art, and the festivals focused on, for instance, Photography and Power (1993) and German Themes (1996).

Since 2000, the event has been known as Helsinki Photography Festival.That year it was named Some Parts of the World, andit was then the most comprehensive and international exhibition and event of contemporary photo-based art to have been organized in Finland. The latest edition of the festival, to be continued (2005), presented a remarkable array of contemporary photography and lens-based work from Finland and the UK, and was curated by Mika Elo and Brett Rogers.

Helsinki Photography Festival 2005, to be continued.../jatkuu...
08.10. - 06.11.2005