NU20 – Our Voice Your Choice

NU20 is a photo exhibition for vocational education students in Nordic countries. The NU exhibitions have been held yearly since 2017 by Prakticum Vocational College in Helsinki (www.prakticum.fi).

The aim of the exhibition is to collaborate with photo education in the Nordic countries and give students and schools a platform to get visibility and promote themselves.

NU20 exhibition is presented at Luckan Culture space in Helsinki, Finland from March 5th- March 26th, 2020. During the same time, NU20 is also shown digitally at Nordic Culture Point.

NU20 includes student work from LBS from Gothenburg, Sweden, and Prakticum Vocational College from Helsinki and Porvoo, Finland.

For more information contact:
Nina Sederholm [email protected]

Connection is a Choice

by A. D. Coleman

Unexpectedly, over the past year a teenage Nordic girl has become the spokesperson for an international protest against widespread heel-dragging and outright denial in the face of catastrophic global warming. So it seems appropriate that, at such a moment, the theme of this exhibition should ask the young Nordic photographers represented in this project to look for ways to manifest in visual imagery the urgent issues of voice and choice.

One might anticipate a collective response emphasizing documentary and reportage, a concentration on social and political issues, yet that emerges as a minor aspect of this project, evident only in one image of someone staring at an abandoned, decrepit industrial building defaced or, one might argue, beautified by graffiti.

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