Photo North – Northern Photographic Centre in collaboration with the Finnish Association of Photojournalists brings the F5.6 Club to Oulu on 22nd of April.
The F5.6 Club will be held at Snooker Time (Asemakatu 28, 90100 Oulu) starting at 19.00 and will feature Magnum photographer Salih Basheer. Basheer will be interviewed about his works and career by local photojournalist Antti J. Leinonen. The talk is in English. The club is free of charge.
Salih Basheer (born in 1995, in Omdurman, Sudan) is a Sudanese photographer. After finishing high school in Sudan, he moved to Cairo in 2013 and received his Bachelor’s degree in Geography from Cairo University in 2017. During his studies in Egypt, he started as a self-taught photographer, and subsequently studied Photojournalism in Denmark.
In 2021, Basheer received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund student grant for his personal project, 22 Days in Between. For the same project, Basheer was awarded the Everyday Projects Grant. In January 2023, Basheer published 22 Days in Between, the first-ever photo-book by a Sudanese photographer, and the book was awarded the 2023 Les Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award. In 2024, he joined Magnum Photos as a nominee.
F5.6 Club
Snooker Time, Asemakatu 28, 90100 Oulu
Wednesday 22.4.2026 at 19.00
Event photo by Salih Basheer from the series 22 Days In Between.