2008

BACKLIGHT  08 web

The theme of Backlight 08 Photo Festival was Tickle Attack – surveying humour, laughter, irony, paradox and absurd in the means of fine art photography and documentary projects. Photographs and video-based projects of 56 artists were chosen for the international Backlight 08 Photo Festival. The exhibition was shared by various galleries and venues; opened to the public simultaneously across Europe: in Finland, Italy, Austria and Poland.

1996 "PHOTOGRAPHY 96 TAMPERE"

Event theme in 1996 was Finnish Documentary . We had a major photography exhibition with 19 finnish photoartits. In the seminar discussion there were Raoul Grünstein, Asko Mäkelä and Inari Teinilä conversating the situation of documentary aspect in photoart.

2005

BACKLIGHT  05 web

The keynote of Backlight2005 is on Contemporary European Photo-Art beginning with the 1970th, enriched i.e. by historical works of August Sander, 1930th-, Lewis Carroll, 1870th- and extended by contemporary documentaries on the theme of Childhood and Youth from Iran, Israel, USA and Mexico.

Videoclip from Backlight 2005

1993 Photography 93 Tampere
"Focus on Austria and Germany
"

In 1993 we had workshops, the artists were Jashi Kleine from Germany and Heinz Cibulka from Austria. In that event there was the open discussion; NamNam 93, at the theme on Morality and Religious in Photography and Advertising (of Benetton).

2002

BACKLIGHT 02 web
BACKLIGHT  02 text

The global doors open - photography goes POPlatino. Critical authenticity, the theme of the event, refers to the ability to respond and to exercise critical responsibility in authentic situations of social and ethical urgency.

Marcos Lopez from Backlight 2002

1990 USA meets USSR

In 1990 it was Danny Lyon from the US and Rifkhat Yakupov from the USSR who arrived to give lectures and teach in the workshops. Their exhibitions were displayd in Nykyaika. The theme was politically quite actual: East goes West.

 1999 BACKLIGHT 99 web
BACKLIGHT 99 text

Backlight´s emphasis is against mainstream and opens a remarkable sequence of international exhibitions including classic photography, installation, sculpture, collage and projection.

 1987   Contemporary British Photography

The British photographers Martin Parr, Paul Graham and Vigtor Burgin were invited in 1987 as the first meeting`s guests in triennial of Nykyaika. Their show was arranged in cooperation with the Tampere Museum of Modern Art. The theme of the event was New British Documentary.