Thordis Wolf (AT, b. 1985) is a photographer and writer based in Vienna, Austria. Working with unedited analogue photography, she captures raw moments that conjure oddity, peculiarity, and a subtle sense of eeriness. Her work is driven by an obsession with the easily overlooked, focusing on fleeting encounters and quiet details. In 2025, she was selected as a FRESH EYES Talent by GUP Magazine, and participated in the Rencontres d’Arles. From September 2026, her work will be exhibited at the Tyrolean State Museums.

Wolf’s Translating Eigengrau is an ongoing analogue photography series that explores the notion of perception from a neurodivergent perspective. Eigengrau refers to a dark grey field perceived by the human eye in the absence of light – a metaphor for the subtle thresholds between visibility, memory, and sensation. At Foto Tallinn, Wolf’s presentation combines three material approaches: traditional fine art prints, translucent prints on silk and organza, as well as images printed on aluminium mesh. These different surfaces form a spectrum between opacity and transparency, creating layered visual fields in which images appear, dissolve, and overlap.

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Sarah Stone (UK/BE, b. 1994) received her Master’s degree in photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2022, winning the Photography Department prize. Her work has been published in theLIST, KAROO, .tiff, Der Greif, Subbacultcha, and Different Class. Stone has self-published three photobooks, whilst her works have been exhibited by platforms such as ONBOARDS Biennale, .tiff at FOMU (Photography Museum Antwerp), and Stieglitz19 Gallery.

Stone’s Pl. du Jeu de Balle project takes its name from one of Europe’s most well-known flea markets, situated in the heart of Brussels – also known as Vossenplein or the Old Market. Her analogue photographs pay close attention to the market’s textures, materials, colours, and its arrangements of objects, zooming in to isolate particular details. When a visitor passes by, stops, or picks up an object to admire, Stone’s composition transitions in new directions.

www.sarahstone.be

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.

www.saskiareis.com

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

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.

maryamtouzani.com

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.

www.liinaleo.com