Do you have first-hand experience of the Oulu Youth Riot of 10–11 August 1990? Did you spend a night at the police station that used to be located where the Photo North gallery now stands at Cultural Centre Valve?
Curators Katie Lenanton and Farbod Fakharzadeh are searching for stories and photographs of this event for an art exhibition Pelekääkkö nää polliisia? opening at Photo North’s gallery next year, running from May 9 to August 30, 2026.
The group will set up a booth to collect stories and photographs at Kädentaitajien lahjapaja (Isokatu 33) on December 18th from 4PM to 8PM.
You can also email your story, photos, and memories to info@photonorth.fi, text/WA +358 40 128 1 150 or send them by post to:
Photo North – Pohjoinen valokuvakeskus
Hallituskatu 7
90100 Oulu
Katie Lenanton (she/her) is an intersectional feminist curator, artistic researcher, writer, and editor who works collectively through mediums like exhibition-making, social practice, wildcrafting, conceptual cocktails, publishing, scent, and sustenance, amongst others. An important question in her work is “who is in the room, and under what conditions?”
In 2019, she co-founded Feminist Culture House, a Helsinki-based curatorial and editorial platform that produces exhibitions, publications, and tools for more equitable collaborations within the art field. She has an MA in Curating, Mediating, and Managing Art from Aalto University. Farbod Fakharzadeh (he/him) is an artworker and curator based in Finland who holds a master’s degree in visual culture, curating and contemporary art from Aalto University. During the past 15 years, he has co-founded and participated in several platforms, projects and exhibitions in Finland and internationally. He is interested in art’s potential in shaping what is yet to come and his work deals with notions of work, curatorial hospitality, regenerative agency, collective dreaming and political imaginaries. Farbod currently works as the director at Arte ry- Titanik gallery in Turku Finland. Previously he has worked as co-artistic director for Catalysti ry, a lecturer and curriculum advisor at Node Center for curatorial studies and a co-curator for Rehearsing Hospitalities by Frame Contemporary Art Finland among others roles.