Länsilinkki
Column gallery

00180 Helsinki
25.5.2023–25.5.2024

Outdoor photography exhibition by the students of Ruoholahti Comprehensive School.

What is a photograph actually? What messages would you like to see in the urban space? And what type of images are created from words or what kind of words do images produce?

Pupils from Ruoholahden koulu were pondering these and other questions in workshops organized by the Finnish Museum of Photography in the spring of 2023. During the workshop, the students took photos based on the following themes: sports, everyday life, environment, cats, animals, trees and plants. In addition to their own images, the students have selected images from the museum’s collections to display on the underpass columns.

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Although children and young people photograph more than ever before, they need guidance in visual culture, where viewing, showing, taking pictures, interpreting, valuing and imagining play a key role. In this project, children and young people are seen as artists and active actors in relation to their own immediate environment and its well-being. With the exhibition, the children’s and young people’s own visual culture will have a prominent and long-lasting place in the public, urban space.

Erja Salo, Head of Education and Public programmes 

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3rd graders
Cats, animals, trees and plants
Aatos, Elias, Hugo, Hugo, Jasmiina, Justus, Leo, Mikael, Moona, Phuc, Rosalee, Saara, Sara, Tiitus, Veeti
Elias, Inna, Jimi, Joanna, Joel, Leo, Matias, Max, Miro, Niila, Nilla, Niko, Olivia, Otso, Samija, Samuele, Valtteri, Väinö 
Teachers: Arja Smolander, Elina Hiidenpalo

Preparatory class
Sport 
Abisaar, Adelina, Arsenii, Daniil, Dima, Dymytro, Ivan, Jacky, Katya, Lolita, Maxim, Misha, Oleksander, Roksolana, Sebastian, Snikitha, Trisha, Tristan, Varvara, Varvara, Viktoria, Yehor, Zoriana
Teachers: Satu Villikka, Juan Kasari
 
5th graders
Everyday life and the environment
Aaro, Alvar, Daniel, Eelis, Elvi, Eveliina, Iines, Inka, Jacqueline, Jeremias, Lilya, Luka, Maxim, Mustaq, Oiva, Robi, Sara, Seela, Valtteri, Vasilisa
Teacher: Panu Helanterä