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

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 2019-2022

Harri Laakso

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

Marjaana Kella

Professor of Photography in Contemporary Art, Time and Space Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts 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.

Janne Seppänen

Professor, Communication Sciences Unit, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University.

Mikko Villi

Professor of Journalism, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Language and Communication Studies, Finland.

Hanna Weselius

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

ADVISOR

2022

Karl Ketamo

Artist. MA Photography / Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland. Website.

EVENT ASSISTANTS

2022

Petri Juntunen

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

Philippe La Grassa

MA Sound In New Media student, Research Assistant at Department of Art and Media. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland.

Sheung Yiu

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

2020

Karl Ketamo

MA Photography student, Research Assistant at Department of Media. .

COMMUNICATION ASSISTANTS

2022

Oona Räyhäntausta

MA Visual Communication Design student, Communications Assistant at Department of Media. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland.

2020

Jenni Toivonen

MA Photography student, Communications Assistant at Department of Media. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland.