Research
I am a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki in Finland under the supervision of Dr. Teemu Kempainen, Dr. Sanna T Lehtinen and Prof. Mari Vaattovaara.
My research interests include visual culture, digital media, media communications, philosophy of technology, and human geography. Currently, I am examining the role of image-making practices with the smartphone camera and how these practices mediate our contemporary landscapes. I use a combination of media theory, human geography, postphenomenology, and philosophy of technology to examine the co-constructed nature of the world through these practices.
Keywords: landscape, visual culture, urban, technology, smartphone, social media, photography
You can read my latest articles here:
I have a new article coming out very soon in the Landscape Research Journal.
#kalasatama: Discursive Views of the Helsinki Landscape Through the Virtual Window in Philosophy of the City Journal, University of Groningen Press, Vol. 1 No. 1, October 2023.
You can also read about my research on my blog, on Substack or watch some videos on my YouTube channel.
Conferences/Papers/Talks
Future
Presentation Title: Image-making with the Landscape: Between Representation and Reification
Helsinki PhotoMedia, Aalto University
15 -17 April 2026
Past
Presentation Title: Image-making with the Landscape: Between Representation and Reification
Experiencing Environments – Human Perspectives in the Changing World
XVI International Summer Conference of the International Institute of Applied Aesthetics, Lahti, Finland.
10 – 12 June 2025
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Presentation Title: Empathy and Landscape
International Visual Literacy Association Annual Conference
Murray State University, Kentucky, USA.
4 November 2024
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Presentation Title: Empathy and Landscape
Helsinki PhotoMedia, Aalto University
11 – 13 April 2024
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Presentation Title: #kalasatama: Discursive Views of Helsinki Through the Virtual Window.
Scoping Sustainable Aesthetics – Rethinking Nature, Man-Made Environment.
Summer Congress of the International Institute of Applied Aesthetics.
12 – 14 June 2023
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Presentation Title: Politics of Practice
Think Tank: On the History and Practice of Contemporary Photography in Ireland 1990-2022
PhotoIreland Festival 2022, PrintWorks, Dublin Castle, Ireland
29 July 2022
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Artist Talk
PhotoIreland Festival 2022, PrintWorks, Dublin Castle, Ireland
9 July 2022
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Presentation Title: #kalasatama: Discursive views of the Helsinki skyline through the virtual window
Helsinki PhotoMedia, Aalto University
31 March – 2 April 2022
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Presentation Title: #kalasatama: Discursive views of Helsinki through the virtual window
Urbaria Academics, University of Helsinki.
3 November 2021
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Paper Title: ‘A Place Like All Others: Using Ethnography to Address Representation’.
Landskrona Foto, Sweden.
30 September – 1 October 2021
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Paper Title: ‘#kalasatama: Digital Visual Representations and the (Re)Making of Urban Publics’.
Royal Geographical Society annual conference – Imagined, imaginative, and imaginary geographies
Newcastle University, UK.
31 August – 3 September 2021
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Paper Title: ‘#kalasatama: Digital Visual Representations and the (Re)Making of Urban Publics’.
Philosophy of the City annual conference.
University of Twente, Netherlands.
17 May 2021
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Paper Title: ‘Coded Space: Digital Visual Representations and the (Re)Making of Urban Publics’.
Coordinates Conference VI: Art, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Everyday Life.
University of Presov, Slovakia.
11 – 13 November 2020
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Paper Title: ‘The Image of Urban Space in the Age of Financialisation’.
Intersections of finance and society.
City, University of London.
12 – 13 December 2019
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Paper Title: ‘Migrations of capital and the topographies of urban space’
Understanding Migration in Nordic and Baltic Countries.
Nordic Summer University, Nordic Culture Point, Kaisaniemenkatu 9, Helsinki, Finland.
10 – 12 March 2019
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Paper Title: ‘A Place Like All Others – Picturing Global Capital in Urban Space’.
Radical Relevances Conference 2018.
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland.
25 – 27 April 2018
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Paper Title: ‘A Place Like All Others – Picturing Global Capital in Urban Space’.
Helsinki PhotoMedia: Reconsidering the ‘Post-truth Condition’: Epistemologies of the photographic image.
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland.
26 – 28 March 2018
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Paper Title: ‘The Irish Identity in Albert Kahn’s Photographic Archives’.
Helsinki University, Unioninkatu 38, Department of World Cultures.
20 May 2015
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Paper Title: ‘Photographic advertising in the neoliberal city’.
Media City: Spectacular/Ordinary/Contested.
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24.
15-17 May 2013
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Paper Title: ‘The Ideology of Corporate Photography’.
Helsinki PhotoMedia: Images in Circulation.
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
28 – 30 March 2012