Eeva Hannula (b. 1983) is a writing photographic artist based in Helsinki. Her works combine photo collages with visual and written poetry, exploring the boundaries of photography, the connections between text and image, and the transformations of digital and physical traces. In her work, Hannula questions rational logic and examines the interplay between the unconscious elements of the camera, texts, and the artist herself. Her creations emphasise intuition, poetic thinking, and bodily knowledge.
Recycling and modifying photographic material through multiple printing stages is essential to Hannula’s art. She feels the need to slow down and dissolve the formation of the material in an effort to confront fragmented attention caused by the vast quantity, speed, and flow of contemporary images. Hannula’s creative process involves thinking through mass and repetition, and making images is like a journey with her eyes and hands. Writing poems flows into photo collages and vice versa. She regards the construction of her works as poetic and metaphorical thinking, involving the rewriting of photographic material through photography, drawing, writing, and collage-making.
She is intrigued by the meaning-making process—how meanings change, break, or condense between images, texts, and materials. She sees her works as a continuous act of writing, never complete. Underlying her work is the idea of the image as an ever-forming substance, lacking a single static essence.
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