Sari Soininen

Photographer

Sari Soininen (b.1991) is a Finnish photographer based in Helsinki.   Her colourful otherworldly photography draws from philosophical thoughts and personal mystical experiences. Her interest is in providing the viewer with alternative ways of seeing the world and reality around them.   Sari holds an MA from UWE Bristol (2021), BA from Lahti Institute of Design (2014) and she carried out exchange studies in Edinburgh College of Art (2013).   After completing her BA degree Sari began a career in graphic design, event photography, and animation. In 2019 she decided to pursue fine art photography and started her masters.   Sari’s work has been shown in various festivals and exhibitions in The United Kingdom, France, Finland, Italy, Denmark, Greece and Netherlands. In 2021 her work was featured in publications like FT Weekend Magazine, Fisheye Magazine, British Journal of Photography, and Liberation Magazine. She was nominated as PHMuseum’s Top 14 Graduates to Watch in 2021, and she is a winner of the BJP Fast Track Open Call 2021 and BJP 365 Edition. In 2022 Sari is getting her first book "Transcendent Country of the Mind" published by The Eriskay Connection.