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Helsinki Analog Festival 2026 OPEN CALLS

We are delighted to announce international Open Calls for:

 

 

 

 

Helsinki Analog Festival (HAF) continues the legacy of the Helsinki Darkroom Festival, first organized in 2022 by the Finnish Darkroom Association. In 2026, the festival expands beyond photography to include moving images and book arts, celebrating analog and handcrafted art that emphasizes materiality, embodied artistic practices, and sustainable collaboration.

 

Apply by 14 December 2025 via the links above!

Fall courses 2025

Fall courses in Mörk! We have a selection of courses from to choose on. You can learn basic skills, more advanced techniques and bookbinding.

Basics of gelatin silver printing 24.–25.10.2025

Bookbinding (Teaching only in English) 22.–23.11.2025

Advanced course of gelatin silver printing 28.–30.11.2025

The teacher’s are the association’s chair, Katri Lassila, Katya Lesiv.

Courses are taught in Finnish and English.

Registrations: https://holvi.com/shop/pimiotaiteilijat

Members of the association get a 20% discount on courses with the code “JASENALENNUS”. Also remember that a course is a perfect gift for someone close to you who is interested in analog photography.

Spring courses 2025

Spring courses in Mörk! We have wide selection of courses from to choose on. You can learn basic skills, more advanced techniques and alternative technicues.

Film photography and development of black and white film 8.3.2025

Basics of gelatin silver printing 21.–22.3.2025

Advanced course of gelatin silver printing 3.–5.4.2025

Experimental cyanotype (Teaching only in English) 18.–19.4.2025

Lith printing (Teaching only in English) 3.5.2025

Chemigram – Martti Jämsä 17.–18.5.2025

The teacher’s are the association’s chair, Katri Lassila, Pietu Pohjalainen (FT), Aindreas Scholz, Denny Syed, and an honorary member of Finnish darkroom assosication Martti Jämsä.

Courses are taught in Finnish and English.

Registrations: https://holvi.com/shop/pimiotaiteilijat

Members of the association get a 20% discount on courses with the code “JASENALENNUS”. Also remember that a course is a perfect gift for someone close to you who is interested in analog photography.

Fall courses 2024

We are  publishing the fall courses in Mörk! You can learn basic skills as well as more advanced techniques.

Basics of gelatin silver printing 20.–21.9.2024

Advanced course of gelatin silver printing 15.–17.11.2024

Other special courses will be added as soon as possible.

The teacher is the association’s chair, Katri Lassila.

Courses are taught in Finnish and English.

Registrations: https://holvi.com/shop/pimiotaiteilijat

Members of the association get a 20% discount on courses with the code “JASENALENNUS”. Also remember that a course is a perfect gift for someone close to you who is interested in analog photography.

Spring courses 2024

We are finally publishing the spring courses in Mörk! You can learn basic skills as well as more advanced techniques. As the new courses, we have cyanotype printing and large format photography, where the working format will be 4×5″.

Basics of gelatin silver printing 15.–16.3.2024

Advanced course of gelatin silver printing 5.–7.4.2024

Cyanotype printing May

The teachers are the association’s chair, Katri Lassila, and long time members Jussi Hartelin and Mika Selvinen.

Courses are taught in Finnish and English.

Registrations: https://holvi.com/shop/pimiotaiteilijat

Members of the association get a 20% discount on courses with the code “JASENALENNUS”. Also remember that a course is a perfect gift for someone close to you who is interested in analog photography.

AUTUMN COURSES 2023

We are finally publishing the much-requested autumn course offer in Mörk! You can learn basic skills as well as the wet plate process. As a new course, Katri teaches a workshop focused on finishing a black and white print.

Basics of silver gelatin printing 27.–28.10.2023

Film photography and development of black and white film 03.–04.11.2023

Intro to wet plate photography 17.11.–19.11.2023

Advanced course of silver gelatin printing 24.11.–26.11.2023

Finishing the silver gelatin print 08.12.–09.12.2023

 

The teachers are the association’s chair, Katri Lassila, and vice-chair, Jenni Haili.

In all courses, the language of instruction is Finnish, but also English if necessary.

Registrations: https://holvi.com/shop/pimiotaiteilijat

Members of the association get a 20% discount on courses with the code “JASENALENNUS”. Also remember that a course is a perfect gift for someone close to you who is interested in analog photography.

NEW SUMMER COURSES

We got a few more great courses for the spring! The long-planned Chromoskedasic sabattier course by Helsinki Darkroom Festival artist Iana Mizguina is a unique opportunity to learn a special method of metalizing silver prints. The course is however easy and suitable also for beginners. There will also be a second chance to participate in the very popular bromoil printing course. And everyone who has ever studied at Aalto University knows that Juha Markula’s bookbinding course is unbeatable! On Joutsen’s and Markula’s courses teaching is only in Finnish.

20.–21.5.2023
Bookbinding workshop
Teacher: Juha Markula
Ilmoittaudu!

3.–4.6.2023
Chromoskedasic sabattier -menetelmä
Teacher: Iana Mizguina
Ilmoittaudu!

10.–11.6.2023
Bromiöljyvedostustyöpaja
Teacher: Markku Joutsen
Ilmoittaudu!

SPRING COURSES 2023

Spring 2023 in Mörk will be full of interesting workshops. Now, if ever, you should update your basic skills and throw yourself into the world of attractive alternative methods! Please also remember that a course is a perfect gift for someone close to you who is interested in analog photography.

Registrations: https://holvi.com/shop/pimiotaiteilijat

The main teaching language is Finnish, however most courses may also be held in English if requested.

10.–11.3.2023
Basics of silver gelatin printing
In the silver gelatin printing workshop, you will learn the basics of b&w darkroom work. You can join the course, even if you have never printed a photo in a darkroom or have completely forgotten about it.
Teacher: Katri Lassila

25.–26.3.2023
Bromoil printing workshop
The course covers the basics of bromoil printing and teaches you the bromoil printing technique in practice.
Teacher: Markku Joutsen

12.–13.5.2023
Film photography and development of black and white film
Is there a film camera gathering dust on your shelf that you don’t know how to use? Don’t worry, this course guides you through everything: from choosing the film, loading it into the camera, to shooting and developing it.
Teacher: Jenni Haili

20.–21.5.2023
The basics of bookbinding
In the bookbinding workshop, you will learn the basics of bookbinding. You can participate in the course without previous experience in bookbinding.
Teacher: Juha Markula

26.5.–28.5.2023
Intro to wet plate photography
Wet plate photography was a process from the middle and end of the 19th century, which was made famous by e.g. Julia Margaret Cameron and Gustave Le Gray. In this course, you will learn how to make, expose, process and finish ambrotypes (image on glass) and ferrotypes (image on black aluminum).
Teacher: Jenni Haili

NORDIC ANALOG NETWORK 2023

Finnish Darkroom Association publishes an OPEN CALL for Nordic Analog Network artist residency program. Application deadline is 15.1.2023.

Nordic Analog Network is a program supported by Nordic Culture Point, funded in 2021 in collaboration with Cyan Studio from Oslo, Norway. Program was launched in 2022 with two pilot residency periods.

In the NAN program, during two years all together twenty Nordic artists will live and work during three-week residency periods in a darkroom situated in another Nordic country. Program offers funding for the darkrooms and for the artists selected in it.

In the NAN program 8 darkrooms are included from all the five Nordic countries; Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Read more about NAN and apply:

www.nordicanalognetwork.com

Workshops Fall 2022

In autumn 2022 we will be organising three courses: one on film developing and two gelatin silver printing courses.

Teacher of the film course is photographic artist and documentarist, board member Jaakko Kilpiäinen and the teacher of the printing courses is photographic artist and association’s president Katri Lassila. The teaching is in Finnish and if necessary also in English.

You may enroll on the courses at https://holvi.com/shop/pimiotaiteilijat

Note! If you order two courses (amount over 270€), you get a -15% discount with the code “Kurssit”!