Mia Dudek (PL/PT, b. 1989) is a visual artist born in Sosnowiec, Poland. Her artistic practice encompasses photography and installation, exploring the interplay between architecture and intimacy. She holds a BA from London College of Communications and an MA from the Royal College of Art. Currently based in Lisbon, Dudek has exhibited widely across Europe; her work investigates memory, identity, and daily experiences, contemplating how they shape our understanding of space and belonging.

What happens to a house when memory begins to seep into it? Mia Dudek’s Saturation project approaches the house as an organism, examining the moment that structures – architectural, mental and biological – reach a point of excess. “A system reaches a threshold state when it can no longer contain what it has absorbed,” she describes. “Moisture is not only a material condition but a process of slow infiltration, sedimentation and destabilisation that reveals what lies beneath the surface. Saturation does not signal destruction but transformation: a movement through which the repressed seeps back into visibility, like trauma in the body or damp through a wall.”

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Roman Korovin (LV, 1973–2026) was a Latvian photographer and painter, best known for his playful and ironic approach to image-making. He graduated from the Department of Graphic Art at the Art Academy of Latvia in 1997. Throughout his career, Korovin published three books, whilst his work was exhibited across Europe and the USA. Today, his work is found in several major public collections in Latvia, as well as in a range of private collections abroad. In 2025, Korovin was awarded the Purvītis Prize – the most prestigious art award in Latvia – for his solo exhibition Let’s Die Together at the Rothko Museum, Daugavpils. He received the Latvian Annual Photography Award in both 2006 and 2007.

Whether portraying ordinary objects or everyday scenes, Korovin’s photographs are characterised by precise observation, visual paradoxes, and a subtle sense of humour. His series are conceived to be witty and anecdotal: presented as diptychs or triptychs, his images take on new meaning as they interact with one another. At Foto Tallinn 2026, MAKSLA XO presents a selection of previously unseen works from two of Korovin’s series: Garden Close to the Sea and Paradise Garden.

Artist is presented by Maksla XO Gallery

Saskia Reis (DE) is a visual artist and cultural journalist based between Berlin and Bavaria, Germany. Her papercut photo collages examine human complexity and the multidimensionality of character. Reis holds a Master’s degree with distinction from the University of the Arts London. Alongside her artistic practice and interdisciplinary projects, she teaches at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and mentors students at the University of the Arts London. She is a member of Berlin-based AFF Galerie.

At Foto Tallinn, Reis presents a diverse selection of street scenes from Cairo and Alexandria, as well as a previously unseen series of  portraits of artists and creatives from Egypt – both rendered in her signature papercut photo collage style. Shot during a 2024 fellowship, Reis began reworking her images in 2025; her works are printed on photo paper, hand-cut with a scalpel, then spaced and arranged in object frames, allowing the viewer to discover layers beneath the surface level.

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Tanja Muravskaja (EE, b. 1978) is an Estonian artist whose work focuses on questions of identity, social boundaries, and collective and personal memory. She is a graduate of the Estonian Academy of Arts, where she completed both a BA and an MA in Photography. Muravskaja’s creative approach sheds light on psychological themes, studying internal tensions and notions of belonging – at both the individual and social level.

Presented at Foto Tallinn, Muravskaja’s Gardens project takes conceptual cues from the surface of seawater — an optical membrane where light, time, and distance become legible. Working with reflection and glare, the series posits water as a real material condition, and the print as a surface where perception takes place. Rather than depicting a garden, the images instead construct an environment for looking, foregrounding the photograph as an object: its materiality, scale, and viewing conditions become central to its meaning.

Artist is presented by FOKU Gallery

Roman-Sten Tõnissoo (EE, b. 1989) is an Estonian artist and photographer based in Tallinn. His practice focuses on the quest for spirituality and purpose in contemporary society, whilst his cross-media working methods search for spatial moments of dialogue – with the potential to visualise new perspectives. Tõnissoo holds a BA in Photography and an MA in Contemporary Art from the Estonian Academy of Arts. Additionally, he studied at FAMU: Prague’s Film and Television School of the Academy of the Performing Arts. 

Nekya refers to an ancient Greek ritual which involved summoning the ghosts of the deceased – to be questioned about the future. Tõnissoo’s project takes inspiration from this tradition: his photographs form a journey into the human psyche, depicting unsettling yet transformative moments of liminality – somewhere between creation and violent destruction.

Artist is presented by FOKU Gallery

Taavi Rekkaro (EE, b. 1988) is a mixed-media artist whose work reflects an intuitive dialogue between visual arts and photography. By merging images with physical materials, he tries to capture the energy of fleeting moments, blurring the lines between memory and self-discovery. Rekkaro has exhibited his works at several international shows and art fairs, whilst his work has appeared in a range of international publications.

At Foto Tallinn, Rekkaro presents a series of “photo objects” that challenge conventional interactions between artwork and viewer – reframing photography as something to be touched, and allowing closeness to become part of the experience. Together, the works create a dialogue on distance and intimacy, moments in the everyday, and the ways in which we stay connected. 

Artist is presented by Vasli Souza Gallery

Sofia Runarsdotter (SE, b. 1982) is a Swedish photographer and artist with a twenty-year practice in documentary photography and fine art. Her socially-engaged, autobiographical work explores body, identity, violence, class, and the rural north of Sweden. A recipient of the Vera and Gösta Agnekil Scholarship in 2023, Runarsdotter was nominated for the PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant in 2024. She has worked for clients including The New York Times, Dagens Nyheter, and Swedish Public Television.

Girl, Battle is a long-term, socially-engaged project rooted in Runarsdotter’s adolescence as a handball athlete in northern Sweden. Through staged collaborations with young female athletes from the artist’s hometown, the series examines girlhood at the threshold of adulthood – shaped by discipline, intimacy, pressure, and silent violence. Using analogue techniques and bursts of flash, Runarsdotter transforms moments of collision, defence, and devotion into images that echo Baroque and Renaissance paintings. The athletes appear almost monumental, suspended between strength and vulnerability. Installed at scale, the images are experienced like sacred or biblical tableaux, elevating sport into something ritualistic, psychological, and deeply human.

www.sofiarunarsdotter.com

MAryam Touzani (NL/MA, b. 1997) is an image-based artist exploring diasporic identity and existential rootlessness. A child of immigrants, Touzani’s work navigates her Moroccan heritage within the context of a Dutch upbringing, examining where these cultures overlap, conflict, and fracture. Using photography and archival material, she questions how histories are preserved or silenced. Touzani holds a BFA from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and works as a picture editor for the NRC, a Dutch daily newspaper. In 2024, she was selected as a Foam Talent, featuring in Foam Magazine and a parallel touring exhibition.

Touzani’s Argania presents five handmade wooden objects, each functioning as both a hybrid frame and an archive. The objects hold layered photographs, found maps and archival material – fragments of a Moroccan Amazigh history that has been lost, overlooked, or partially erased. The artist deploys wooden panels to partially conceal the images inside, mirroring how parts of a lost culture might themselves go unseen. Importantly, though, Touzani’s work does not attempt to restore what has gone, but instead to hold onto what remains – however fractured.

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Kristine Krauze-Slucka (LV, b. 1979) is a visual artist based in Riga, Latvia, whose conceptual practice explores tactile image-making and the materiality of industrially-produced objects, transforming them into sites of embodied inquiry. She routinely works across different media, encompassing image-making, video and installation art. Krauze-Slucka holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Visual Communication Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts.

Krauze-Slucka brings two bodies of work to this year’s edition of Foto Tallinn. First, the Mapping Tensions: Cartography of Distorted Boundaries project explores the fluidity and fragility of borders through photographic assemblage – made from expired silver gelatin paper. Second, the Solastalgia series consists of unique black-and-white silver emulsion prints, evoking abstract, geographical spaces where gradual processes of disappearance and distancing are in effect.

Artist is presented by Punctum Gallery

Liina Leo (EE, b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the transformative power of the unseen, navigating the liminal spaces between life, death, dreams and reality. She holds an MA in Contemporary Photography from London’s Central Saint Martins. Leo approaches image-making as an alchemical process, focusing on its hidden material conditions rather than representation alone. Through site-specific performances, photography, and moving image, her work reflects on the experience of alienation.

Leo’s presentation at Foto Tallinn continues her exploration into the alchemical potential of photography and the material presence of silver. Inspired by the act of looking into a mirror, Leo’s project questions the space between observer and observed, the living and the dead. In the artist’s terms, gold and silver function as allegories of value and desire, yet they remain cold, distant surfaces, drawing the viewer into a fractured encounter with their own reflection. The work seeks to evoke an uncanny, ghostly presence, where the photographs take on a spectral value beyond the image itself.

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