Current exhibitions

The Finnish Museum of Photography

The Cable Factory
Kaapeliaukio 3, 00180 Helsinki
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Tue–Fri 11 am – 7 pm, Sat–Sun 11 am – 6 pm
The Cable Factory
9.5.–31.8.
The Heroes & Cowboy Girls exhibition portrays aspects of cowboy culture that are usually marginalized in the United States. It explores the roles of girls and women on ranches, as well as the significance of gay rodeo as a subculture opposing discrimination. Rodeo is a competitive sport that tests…
The Cable Factory
9.5.–31.8.
Since 2005, the Activestills photography collective has been documenting Israeli colonial violence and Palestinian resistance.  Activestills was formed by activist photographers who wanted to document and support Palestinian popular resistance. What started as a small group, grew into a larger…
The Cable Factory
4.4.–1.6.
In SICK, Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø explores the boundaries of illness, the body, and technology through various photographic media. Drawing from personal experiences with chronic illness, her work exists in the tension between the personal and the universal, between fragility and resilience as a…
The Cable Factory
Viewfinder is The Finnish Museum of Photography's first permanent exhibition. Hundreds of millions of photos are taken around the world every day. Why and how do photographs make us feel and act?