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.”

TorbjØrn RØdland

One look at his photographs and it’s clear to see that this reluctance to “deliver as expected” fully informed his subsequent return to the camera, and defines an intentionally varied body of photographic work that ranges from highly stylized to naturalistic pictures. In fact, despite the directness of the medium and the clean immediacy of his style, his picture-making, like the man himself, can be elusive in ways that are fascinating, confounding, and yet ultimately rewarding.

Esko Männikkö

Männikkö’s work unfolds between anthropological and social documentary and purely aesthetic creation; these two lines can also define his work method. The artist lives with his models for days, speaking with them, drinking with them and entering their houses as a guest, as a witness who is not a bothersome stranger, and this proximity is what allows Männikkö to create this work.

Anders Petersen

Anders Petersen, one of the most important European photographers living today, has been shaking up the world of photography ever since his debut of raw and intimate photographs of late-night regulars in a Hamburg bar in the 1960s. That body of work was published as a book, Café Lehmitz, which is now widely considered a seminal work in the development of European photography. (On par with, but very different from, Robert Frank’s The Americans).