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 …
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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 …
Artists for Backlight’23 Photo Festival announced
Cruel Radiance, the 13th edition of the Backlight Photo Festival, will take place June 3 – October 15 in Tampere, Finland. The festival is produced …
The theme for the 2023 festival is Cruel Radiance
Cruel Radiance | Backlight 2023 What kind of evidentiary power can we associate with images in a world where man-made crises and conflicts have long …
Backlight touring exhibition continues to Akaa
Akaa Central Library hosts an international Backlight2021 touring exhibition, which will be on display from first until the end of September 2021. The exhibition, which …
Backlight Touring Exhibition continues to Orivesi
Galleria Akvaario of Orivesi campus hosts an international Backlight2021 touring exhibition, which will be on display from 29 April to 30 May 2021. The exhibition, …
Backlight 2021 Touring Exhibition
The Sámi Cultural Centre Sajos hosts an international Backlight2021 touring exhibition, which will be on display in Inari from 25 February to 25 March 2021. …
All the books of Backlight2020 Photo Festival trilogy have been published!
All the books of the Backlight2020 Photo Festival trilogy have now been published. Exhibition publications are available at the Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere Art Museum and …
Sjoerd Knibbeler wins the First Prize by the Majaoja Foundation at Backlight2020
Dutch artist Sjoerd Knibbeler wins the First Prize by the Majaoja Foundation. The Second Prize is awarded jointly to artist/researcher Chirag Jindal (Aotearoa-New Zealand) and artist …
Majaoja prizes of the Backlight2020 will be nominated in the festival opening
The Majaoja Prize is awarded by the Majaoja Foundation , who invited the open call jury of Backlight2020 to nominate the three winners. The jury, Ariane Koek (UK), …
Artists for Visual Catalysts Exhibition announced
Visual Catalysts is the special exhibition of the Backlight Photo Festival 2020. The exhibition will take place September 26 – October 18th, 2020 at the Tampere Culture …
Artists for Space Works exhibition announced
Space Works is one of the main exhibitions of the Backlight2020 Photo Festival. The exhibition will take place September 12–November 8, 2020 at the Tampere Art Museum …
Artists for Related Realities exhibition announced
The Backlight Photo Festival is one of the oldest and largest international photography festivals in Northern Europe. The 16th edition of the Backlight triennial is the most extensive ever …
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 …