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 representatives of several European institutions, photography festivals, and artist organisations that actively promote and develop analog artistic practice. The participating speakers will be announced at a later date. The discussion will be moderated by Katri Krohn Lassila, Director of Helsinki Analog Festival.