Jaakko Kahilaniemi (b.1989, Finland) received his BA in Photography from Turku Arts Academy Finland in 2014 and his MA also in photography from Aalto University of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki Finland in 2018.
Kahilaniemi has won the prestigious ING Unseen Talent Award Jury Prize in 2018, he was the winner of the International Photography Culture Exhibition Datong in 2019 and Majaoja/Backlight Grand Prize winner in 2017. He was selected as one of the Lens Culture Emerging Talents in 2017. Kahilaniemi is one of the finalist in the Tokyo International Photo Competition in 2019. He is also one of the exhibiting artists in Festival Circulation(s), Format Festival, Fotografia Europea and GETXO Photo Festival in 2019. He was one of the ten finalists in Hyéres Photo Festival and in Fotofestiwal Łódź in 2018.
His work has been featured in many publications, including Eikon Magazine, Greenpeace Magazine, Der Grief and HANT Magazine. He has been exhibited his work at variou
