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Emilia Moisio (born in Helsinki, Finland 1983) is a doctoral researcher, lecturer and freelance photographer based in London and South Staffordshire.
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academic research
Emilia is currently a PhD researcher in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her PhD research explores methodologies for extending and diversifying what counts as valid forms of academic discourse and production of scholarship by thinking theory with and via images and multimodal argumentation. Thematically, her research explores machine imaging in the context of the tradition and rapidly changing roles of lens-based imagery through examining scientific imaging and emergent technologies. Her thesis focuses on the generative potential of increasingly intelligent technologies and their role as agents in challenging the traditional conception of the image. She is also intrigued by the apparent mobilising of the positivist and representationalist discourses that connect photography, archive, science and evidence in the context of the current data-driven knowledge construction approaches and the developing algorithmic imaging technologies.
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art photography
Her research-based art practice is investigating and questioning the role and functions of images in society and our lives. With a series of diverse, conceptually based photographic projects, she uses images as a tool to examine, analyse, develop, and articulate structured frameworks of thought. Her work critically investigates the social and cultural conventions of different areas of imaging and interpretation, and the persistent role of the relatively inconspicuous, historical assumptions of the inherent photographic objectivity, evidentiality, and truthfulness. Particularly concerned with conceptually disrupting the easily assumed photographic transparency in our habitual interactions with images, her most widely exhibited work explores othering representations of identity and the cultural contextuality of interpretation, whereas a recent major work is investigating the conventions of scientific imaging and their impact on our perceptions of reality.
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commercial photography
Primarily busy as a wedding photographer, she also has years of experience working with a wide scope of editorial, commercial, and corporate assignments, with work both published in newspapers, magazines, brochures, books, and on corporate websites. Her editorial and commercial photographs aim to disclose, preserve and turn into memories the minute instances otherwise so easily fleeting past.
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She is the winner of the Troika Photography Award in 2015 and her art projects have been exhibited widely in photography and cross-media group exhibitions in UK and internationally, Pingyao International Photography Festival in China and Circulation(s) festival in Paris in 2016, shortlisted for Source-Cord Prize 2014, published in Magenta Flash Forward 2015 and Silvershotz Folio 2012, and featured on LensCulture online gallery and Photoworks Showcase.
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Education
| 2016 – | MPhil / PhD Media & Communications | |||
| Goldsmiths, University of London, UK | ||||
| 2014 – 2015 | MA Photography | |||
| London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK | ||||
| 2009 – 2012 | BA (Hons) Photography | |||
| University College Falmouth, UK | ||||
| 2006 – 2009 | viestintä- ja informaatiotieteiden perustutkinto, valokuvaus | |||
| (vocational degree in communication and information sciences, photography) | ||||
| Pekka Halosen akatemia, Tuusula, Finland | ||||
Exhibitions
| Bath Photography Festival 2018 | ||||
| May - June 2018 Bath, UK | ||||
| Winter Salon | ||||
| Dec 2017 - Jan 2018 Leyden Gallery, London, UK | ||||
| Pingyao International Photography Festival | ||||
| Sept 2016 Pingyao, China | ||||
| Circulation(s) festival de la jeune photographie européenne | ||||
| Mar - Aug 2016 CENTQUATRE, Paris, France | ||||
| Mar - June 2016 Gare de l'Est, Paris, France | ||||
| Mar - June 2016 billboards at 12 metro stations, Paris, France | ||||
| May 2016 Circulations Festival 2016 Slideshow at Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, UK | ||||
| July 2016 Circulations Festival 2016 Slideshow at Rencontres d’Arles Night of the Year, Arles, France | ||||
| 15th October - 26th November 2016 Pierrefitte, France | ||||
| Photofusion SALON/15 | ||||
| Dec 2015 - Jan 2016 Photofusion, London, UK | ||||
| The Present Hurts - London College of Communication MA Photography Final Show | ||||
| Nov 2015 London College of Communication, London, UK | ||||
| Photofusion SELECT/15 | ||||
| May - June 2015 Photofusion, London, UK | ||||
| Works on Paper | ||||
| May 2015 Leyden Gallery, London, UK | ||||
| Photofusion SALON/14 | ||||
| Dec 2014 - Jan 2015 Photofusion, London, UK | ||||
| Platform for Emerging Arts #4 | ||||
| Nov 2014 Leyden Gallery, London, UK | ||||
| Vulpes Vulpes Open 2014 | ||||
| Nov 2014 Vulpes Vulpes project space, London, UK | ||||
| Uncertain States Open Call 2014 | ||||
| Oct - Nov 2014 Four Corners Gallery, London, UK | ||||
| The South West Graduate Photography Prize 2012 (shortlisted) | ||||
| Apr - July 2013 Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, UK | ||||
| Sample 13 | ||||
| Apr 2013 theprintspace gallery, London, UK | ||||
| The South West Graduate Photography Prize 2012 (shortlisted) | ||||
| Oct 2012 Vyner Street Gallery, London, UK | ||||
| Illusion | ||||
| Aug - Sept 2012 The Center for Fine Art Photography, CO, USA | ||||
| Foto8 Summershow | ||||
| July - Aug 2012 Foto8, London, UK | ||||
| Free Range | ||||
| June 2012 The Truman Brewery, London, UK | ||||
| le Show - University College Falmouth Summer Festival | ||||
| June 2012 University College Falmouth, Falmouth, UK | ||||
| BA (Hons) Photography 2nd year show | ||||
| Mar 2011 The Poly, Falmouth, UK | ||||
| Heijastuksia (solo exhibition) | ||||
| June - July 2009 Lainamakasiini, Perniö, Finland | ||||
| Valo ja Kuva (Pekka Halosen akatemia photography and fine art student final year show) | ||||
| Apr - May 2009 Valssaamo (Kaapelitehdas) Helsinki, Finland | ||||
| Pieni (Pekka Halosen akatemia 2nd year student show) | ||||
| Mar 2008 Järvenpää-talo, Järvenpää, Finland | ||||
Awards & Acknowledgements
| Troika Photography Award 2015 | ||||
| The Source-Cord Prize 2014 | ||||
| The project 'Vieraalla maalla (In a Foreign Place)' shortlisted | ||||
| 2014 Moscow International Foto Awards | ||||
| Honorable Mention in Culture category for the winning entry 'Vieraalla maalla (In a Foreign Place)' | ||||
| Silvershotz 2012 Folio Annual | ||||
| The project 'Missing Moments' included in the Silvershotz 2012 Folio Annual publication | ||||
| South West Graduate Photography Prize 2012 | ||||
| The project 'Missing Moments' shortlisted | ||||
| 2012 International Photography Awards | ||||
| Honorable Mention in Fine Art - Portrait category for the winning entry 'Vieraalla maalla (In a Foreign Place)' | ||||
| 2012 International Fine Art Photography Competition | ||||
| Juror Award of Merit in People / Portraits category for the photograph 'Louhi' | ||||
Publications
 | Magenta Flash Forward 2015 | |||
| Emerging Photographers from Canada, the United Kingdom & the United States | ||||
| Available at the Magenta website | ||||
 | CS12 | |||
| A photographic diary | ||||
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| available through Blurb | ||||
 | "Kerro joku juttu!" | |||
| Photographically illustrated book of childhood stories by a father and a daughter | ||||
| (2013) | ||||
| available through Blurb | ||||
 | Get On | |||
| a photographic guide to the weird and wonderful things transported by scooter | ||||
| (random obstructions allowing) | ||||
| volume 1 - Vietnam | ||||
| (2013) | ||||
| available through Blurb | ||||
Online features
selected projects featured in LensCulture.
‘the grey indicates the presence’ featured on Photoworks Showcase.
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