Last Round
Campaining for the second round of the elections for the Finnish presidency between National Coalition candidate Alexander Stubb and Green-Party member now running as an independent Pekka Haavisto. The close race was decided on Sunday 11 February 2024 as Finns elected the center-right politician Alexander Stubb as their new president, in the first national election since the country joined NATO.
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PHOTOGRAPHER
SAKARI PIIPPO
BIOSakari Piippo (b. 1981) is a documentary photographer, writer and filmmaker based in Helsinki. He concentrates in his work on building archives to serve as meeting places for utopian imaginations.
His first book, Some Observations on the Political System of Finland (Kosmos, 2019), was awarded Most Beautiful Book of the Year in Finland and shown as a solo exhibition at the Finnish Museum of Photography. It opened a trilogy on the material and ideological substrate of the Finnish welfare state, continuing with Table of Elements (Khaos Publishing, 2026), and concluding later with Encyclopedia Fennica.
Piippo holds a master's in visual journalism from the University of Tampere and a bachelor's in literature from the University of Oulu, and has studied visual storytelling at the Danish School of Media and Journalism and writing at the Critical Academy.
Prints and framed works are available through his shop, Pieni taidekauppa. Studio portraits also available on commission.
His first book, Some Observations on the Political System of Finland (Kosmos, 2019), was awarded Most Beautiful Book of the Year in Finland and shown as a solo exhibition at the Finnish Museum of Photography. It opened a trilogy on the material and ideological substrate of the Finnish welfare state, continuing with Table of Elements (Khaos Publishing, 2026), and concluding later with Encyclopedia Fennica.
Piippo holds a master's in visual journalism from the University of Tampere and a bachelor's in literature from the University of Oulu, and has studied visual storytelling at the Danish School of Media and Journalism and writing at the Critical Academy.
Prints and framed works are available through his shop, Pieni taidekauppa. Studio portraits also available on commission.
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