Backlight Photo Festival continues its international collaboration with Rotterdam Photo in March 2026, supporting emerging photographic talent and fostering dialogue between artistic communities in Finland …
Backlight Photo Festival 2026 has invited an international group of art professionals to join the jury for the festival’s Open Call. The jury will review …
Backlight Photo Festival is inviting photographers and artists working with lens-based media to submit their work for the Backlight Photo Festival 2026. We are looking …
Photojournalism students from Tampere University, Karoliina Redsven and Christian Pirskanen, will present their work at the Rotterdam Photo Festival in May 2025 as part of Backlight Photo Festival’s …
Short movie screening at Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere 18 June 2023 This years iteration of the Backlight Photo Festival, Cruel Radiance, brings up questions on …
Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere Art Museum, Gallery Himmelblau and Cultural House Laikku are all closed from 17th March until 13th April 2020 according to the …
We have the great pleasure to announce that the artists for the Backlight2020 International Photo Festival have been selected. We received well over 600 applications in the open …
The venue of the Backlight2020’s Visual Catalysts exhibition is Culture House Laikku. The house was built in 1925 and it was originally the first main …
Good news for 2020! By international request the Special Call of Visual Catalyst exhibition deadline has been continued till the end of February 29 th, …
The Backlight 2020 Special Call, curated by adjunct professor and artist Juha Suonpää in cooperation with CICAT2025-project, has now opened with theme “New Visual Language …
The main venue of the Backlight2020’s Related Realities exhibition is Gallery Himmelblau. Gallery Himmelblau is located in the historical Finlayson cotton mill area of the …
AD Jesper Vuori has made a new logo for the Backlight2020 Photo Festival. Here you can see the animated logo for the first time! Jesper …
We are proud to introduce the international jury for the Backlight ´20 open call: Ariane Koek is an internationally active British producer, curator, consultant and writer – …
Backlight 2020 Backlight Photo Festival is one of the oldest and largest international photography festivals in Northern Europe. Organised once every three years by the …
The 12th Backlight Photo Festival triennial stays true to its pioneering spirit in announcing the theme for the upcoming 2020 festival: Related Realities – Photography …
