18.4.2026, 15:00–18:00

Panel Discussion

Analog Futures

Analog Futures is an international panel discussion exploring the present and future of analog photography.

This conversation brings together invited speakers from across Europe to reflect on analog photography as both a methodology and an artistic position. The panel will examine how analog practices are evolving today, how they respond to technological acceleration, and what forms of resistance, resilience, and reinvention they may offer within contemporary visual culture.

Moving beyond nostalgia, Analog Futures looks at film, darkroom processes, materiality, and slowness as active and forward-looking strategies. The discussion will situate analog photography within a broader European and international arts context, addressing questions of sustainability, education, access, community-building, and institutional support.

How can analog methodologies shape the future of photographic thinking?
What infrastructures are needed to sustain them?
And what kinds of artistic and cultural futures can emerge from material practice?

Join us for an in-depth conversation on where analog stands — and where it is heading.

The panel brings together researchers, institutions and artists that promote and develop analog artistic practices. Festival Director Katri Krohn Lassila discusses the future and visions of analog photography with Katarzyna Gębarowska, director of the Vintage Photo Festival (Poland), along with senior lecturer Jenni Haili (Turku Academy of Fine Arts), research team leader Jorden Senior, (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) and doctoral researcher Müge Yildiz (Aalto University).