Symposium on Artistic Research in Analog Practices
Sustainable Body

The two-day symposium focusing on analog photography and moving image practice will be held in the Process Space at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland, during the weekend 11.–12.4.2026. The symposium will also take place on an online platform and streamed to the participants in real time.

The symposium brings together international voices exploring how analog image-making — including still and moving images — shapes contemporary artistic practice. In line with the festival’s focus on embodiment, materiality, and ecological responsibility, the symposium highlights sustainable and ecological darkroom practices and analog processes as forms of resistance to digital acceleration.
Keynote Speaker
We are proud to welcome as our keynote speaker The Sustainable Darkroom. The Sustainable Darkroom is an artist-led, research community that develops low-toxicity chemistries and practices in photography. The project was founded by Hannah Fletcher in 2019, and is now run with Edd Carr, with Alice Cazenave as the research advisor.

More info: https://sustainabledarkroom.com/

Speakers
We are so happy to welcome the following artists, researchers and artist-researchers to speak in the symposium (in alphabetical order):

Maddie Alexander (Canada)

Hagren Bela (Weronika Bela and Ivar Hagren) (Sweden/Poland)

Carla Cardinaletti (Italy)

Miglė Križinauskaitė (Lithuania)

Maria McSweeney (Ireland)

Pilvari Pirtola (Finland)

Joana Quiroga (Brazil)

Vanja Qvarfordt (Sweden)

Jorden Senior (United Kingdom)

Helena Sieborgs (Belgium)

Leanne Wiggers (Netherlands)

Lexy Xiao (Norway)

Müge Yildiz (Turkey)
Practical Information
What: Sustainable Body – Symposium on Artistic Research in Analog Practices

When: 11.-12.4.2026 at 12.00–17.00 (12–5pm), registration starts at 11.15 on 11.4. All the times are Helsinki time (Eastern European, UTC+2 and in April the European summer time UTC+3).

Where: Both online and in the Process Space of the Finnish Museum of Photography, Tallberginkatu 1 G, 00180 Helsinki, Finland. The museum is situated in the cultural centre Cable Factory.

For more information and the schedule visit: helsinkianalogfestival.com/symposium