About

Helsinki Photomedia is a biennial photography research conference organized by four Finnish universities since 2012. The first Helsinki Photomedia conference was held in 2012 to fill a void: Photography studies lacked a regular, international research forum for discussing and sharing results and ideas. This was despite the rapid transformation and diversification in photography and the recent surge in photography research all over the world.

The conference offers various platforms where artistic, philosophical, social, cultural, economical and technological approaches to photography meet. We welcome submissions from all areas of photography research. Since 2016 photography education has been one of the areas and we welcome submissions for the educational panel for presenting educational projects and related research. The conference language is English.

The themes of the five previous conferences have been Images in Circulation (2012), Photographic Powers (2014), Photographic Agencies and Materialities (2016), Reconsidering the “Post-truth Condition”: Epistemologies of the photographic image (2018) and Images Among Us (2022).

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 2024

Harri Laakso

Associate Professor of Photography Research, Department of Art and Media, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki.

Mika Elo

Professor of Artistic Research, University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki.

Asko Lehmuskallio

Professor of Visual Studies, Communication Sciences Unit, Tampere University.

Donald Weber

Associate Professor of Contemporary Art Photography, Department of Art and Media, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki.

Hanna Weselius

University Lecturer, Department of Art and Media, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki.

EVENT ASSISTANTS

2024

Petri Juntunen

Visual Artist. Doctoral candidate at Department of Art and Media / Photography. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland. Website.

Sheung Yiu

Visual artist. Doctoral candidate at Department of Art and Media / Photography. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland. Website.

COMMUNICATION ASSISTANTS

To be announced