• Location:
    Haparanda, Sweden
  • Schools Attended:
    Photographer, BA | University of Lahti, Institute of Design, Dep. of Photography
    Master of Arts, Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education | Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture
  • Photo Associations & Memberships:
    The Association of Photographic Artists’, Finland
    CFF – Center for Photography, Sweden
About Eija Mäkivuoti

I am a photographic and visual artist. I work with long-term photo documentary narratives and multidimensional visual storytelling in different forms. My border-crossing artistic work is based in Helsinki, Finland HaparandaTornio , Sweden and in Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands. I hold a MA degree from the Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education (NoVA) programme (Aalto University, Helsinki) and a BA degree in photography from the Lahti Institute of Design (Lahti University of Applied Sciences). I am also trained as a visual artist. I am a member of the Association of Photographic Artists’ in Finland. Ethical, critical, intimate and long-term collaborative/participatory investigations, encounters, multi-dimensional storytelling and explorations to complex phenomena are the main themes in my work.