Ella Kiviniemi exhibited at Wiesbaden Photo Days

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Ella Kiviniemi‘s project “By the Borderline”, which she started as her final diploma project at DMJX in 2015, was exhibited at the 11th Wiesbaden Photo Days from the 17th of August till the 1st of September.

Ella Kiviniemi talking about her projct “By the Borderline” at Wiesbaden Photo Days.

Wiesbaden Photo days is a biennale and one of the oldest photo festivals in Germany. It was first organized in 2002.

For each festival, works of 30-40 photographers are chosen by a jury and presented in 4-6 galleries / exhibition spaces in the city center of Wiesbaden.

In some years the Photo Days has hosted a guest country (Poland, France and Italy). This year 6-8 Finnish photographers / artists were invited to take part in the exhibition. The theme was “exploring borders through photography”.

A line cut through the forrest is where Finland ends and Rusland starts. “By the Borderline” is a project about the Finnish/Russian border, it’s history and the people, who live by it.
Photo from the project: Ella Kiviniemi.
Katri Jeffremoff belongs to the Skolt Sami tribe and was born in Pechenga by the Arctic Sea. Northern borders broke up Skolt Sami families and Katri was forced to become a Finn as a child. “By the Borderline” is a project about the Finnish/Russian border, it’s history and the people, who live by it.
Photo from the project: Ella Kiviniemi.