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FIAP EVENTS PHOTO ACADEMY

FIAP Photo Academy Online Events

By: Paul Stanley EFIAP/p ESFIAP PFIAP FIPF
Director FIAP Photo Academy Online Events

FIAP Events Photo Academy

Urban paradox 4526 by
Pramod Govind Shanbhag,
India

On Saturday 17 January 2026 we started our year with a presentation titled “Telling Stories
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– Building Series” by Kaisa Siren.
Kaisa is a Finnish Photographer who specialises in Intentional Camera Movement images. In
addition, she is a photographic artist and makes her soul landscape visible with Intentional Camera
Movement using the northern sceneries of Finland as her backdrop. She focuses on themes related
to the seasons of Lapland, and the sensitivity of nature.

In the presentation, Kaisa led us
through her work process and how
she uses ICM photography to build
bodies of work telling a story. As Kaisa
has a background in photojournalism,
images unrelated to one another are
Wheelchair basket 10 not as interesting to her as a sequence
by Franco Fratini,
Italy telling a story. With semi abstract
images, as ICM photographs often
are, the story is not written in full form
by the photographer but completed
in the mind of the viewer.
Kaisa also spoke a little bit about
the technique of ICM and how she
creates the images themselves.
Kaisa studied photojournalism 2AM and the river rolls in
in Canada but moved back to Finland after her studies. She lives in Rovaniemi, at the Arctic Circle in
Finnish Lapland, where she works as a freelance photographer and artist. Her work is widely published
in various Finnish magazines and newspapers. She has had several solo and group exhibitions
in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, USA and Germany. She is a co-founder of ICMPhotomag
Network Community and ICM Photo Academy, and teaches courses on ICM photography, both in
person and on-line. Since 2017 she has been running an art gallery in her home town.
See more on Kaisa’s website at https://www.artistkaisasiren.com/

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