Backlight Photo Festival 2026 announces selected artists
Backlight Photo Festival 2026 is excited to present the artists selected for this year’s edition, curated under the theme The Art of Lying. The festival will …
Finnish Student Works Presented at Rotterdam Photo 2026 as Part of Backlight Collaboration
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 Open Call Jury Announced
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 …
The Call for Submissions for Backlight Photo Festival Is Now Open
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 …
Finnish Student Works Featured in Rotterdam as Part of Backlight’s International Collaboration
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 …
Backlight’23 Side Programme
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 …
COVID-19 Update from Backlight2020
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 …
Artists for Backlight2020’s Related Realities exhibition have been selected
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 …
Backlight2020 in
Culture House Laikku
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 …
Special Call of Visual Catalyst exhibition deadline has been continued until February 29th
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 Special Call is now open!
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 …
Backlight2020 in
Gallery Himmelblau
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 …
New logo for Backlight 2020!
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 …
Backlight 2020 open call jury
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 – …
The call is OPEN for Backlight 2020
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 …
Related Realities – Photography meets science and new technologies
The 12th Backlight Photo Festival triennial stays true to its pioneering spirit in announcing the theme for the upcoming 2020 festival: Related Realities – Photography …