Heidi Tirri Photography

10/03/2017

Suomen ensimmäinen visuaalisen journalismin palkinto on eilen myönnetty Karkotetut-projektille. Tunnustus on merkittävä, kuten on tehty työkin. Lämpimät onnittelut voittajille!

Yesterday, The Award of Visual Journalism was granted for the first time in Finland, and was allocated to the Deported team. Warmest congrats for the important project and huge amount of work!

http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005121209.html

Voittajateos palkittiin 10 000 eurolla.

14/02/2017

EDIT: Potretin voitti Tuomas Pitkänen, ja onnettarena toimi Venla. Kiitos kaikille osallistuneille!

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone, Hyvää Ystävänpäivää kaikille!

Ystävänpäivän kunniaksi lahjoitan potrettikuvauksen, ilmaiseksi. Lahjansaaja arvotaan kuukauden päästä, 14.3, ja valokuvaus suoritetaan kesäkuun alkuun mennessä Helsingin tai Keski-Suomen alueella. Osallistuaksesi arvontaan, sinun tulee sekä tykätä että jakaa julkaisu. Jätä myös kommentti osallistumisestasi tai tee julkaisusta julkinen, varmistaaksesi jakosi rekisteröitymisen.

09/08/2016

A new photo essay, 'Inside – the 16th Street', is now available on my website. The essay portrays life of a community living in the Manila North Cemetery, the Philippines, with whom I had a great privilege to spend some time with a couple of months ago.

Please have a look at:
http://www.heiditirri.com/16thstreet

12/05/2016

I'm currently working on a project of the life of a community living at a cemetery, among the dead. They are forced to encounter discrimination in their lives, based on their background and living conditions. However, having not much tangible that they would own, these people are willing to share their everything. Their richness is beyond immeasurable in the friendship they share. This documentation, once again, teaches how true success in life is not be evaluated with money.

19/04/2016

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/17/asia/vietnamese-girls-child-brides-china/index.html

Vietnamese girls are being drugged, tricked and trafficked into China, where they are sold as child brides.

31/03/2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/magazine/a-too-perfect-picture.html?_r=0

How can we tell when a photograph is giving us the truth about a place and not simply trafficking in fantasy?

04/03/2016

Powerful images by Paula Bronstein of life in Afghanistan now available as a book 'Afghanistan, Between Hope and Fear'. http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/bronstein-afghanistan

22/02/2016

The best photo of the year. Also, see the other winning, some powerful, images at the World Press Photo site.

The World Press Photo jury chair explains why Warren Richardson won the top prize

26/12/2015

Documentation of life – one needs not only the ability to see, but sometimes also some luck.

According to BrightSide.me.

02/12/2015

From the streets of Cambodia.

14/11/2015

I have a naive dream.

I have a dream that one day the lust for power, the hatred and anger, would be replaced by peace, harmony and understanding between and within nations, races, religions and policies. That the separation, the dichotomy of 'us and them' would diminish or no more be.

For life itself does not know any borders a creature called man greedily once drew. It never did and it never will, it only protects, understands and respects itself, regardless of any location or system of various kinds of beliefs. A man did not create life, but against all analogies, a man took the power into their hands to arbitrarily exterminate it.

This image was taken at the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris, Paris, France, a few years ago.

Paris, hold on to your courage. And stay safe.

My deepest condolences to everyone who have just faced a tremendous loss of their loved ones.

The little sparrow of Paris.