Casia Bromberg

Casia Bromberg investigates the meaning of intimacy for humankind today, and the isolation created by human individualism.

Born in 1984 in Sweden.

Anni Leppälä

Anni Leppälä is the 26th Young Artist of the Year. She lives and works in Helsinki. Leppälä (b. 1981 in Helsinki) is studying in the photography program, MA, of the University of Art and Design Helsinki. She held her first private exhibition in 2004 and has participated in collective exhibitions from 2001.“My interest towards photography is closely related to time in the past tense, to the possibility of being able to make a moment motionless, to make something stand still. That something has existed, and has now been set in static state.”

Susanna Majuri

“Elskar Fyr (High Tide)”

I want to narrate feelings like in novels. The reader of images gets a chance to handle her lost and encounters. There is a place for danger. Did you die when you saw the shadow of the bird?

Finnish photo artist Susanna Majuri is the storyteller of the North. In her pictures, her thoughts always return to Iceland, the land of her dreams. Majuri portrays people living not only in Iceland, but also in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, because to her mind, there’s a little bit of Iceland in every Nordic country.

The photographs resemble film stills lifted from the movie version of a fairy tale, or perhaps from a thriller, or a romance without a happy end. The many associations evoked demonstrate the enormous narrative potential that hallmarks her work, which is joined by a finely honed sense of composition and staging.