Photo-Walks By The Baltic Sea (2025)

The Photo-Walks by the Baltic Sea is a participatory photography series developed through four free well-being photo-walks held in Espoo, Finland (July–October 2025). The project engaged over fifty participants aged six to sixty-five from seventeen different cultural backgrounds, using photography as a low-threshold tool to support well-being, inclusion, and social connection in public spaces. The project was fully facilitated by professional visual artist and art educator Luiza Preda and financially supported by Espoo City.

The resulting photographs form a mindful visual documentation of shared experiences along the Baltic Sea, reflecting both Espoo’s natural environment and its multicultural community. The walks created accessible spaces for intercultural encounter, presence, and reflection—without requiring prior artistic experience.

The series is presented as four virtual exhibitions within the Creative Harmony initiative, extending the project’s reach and impact by making the outcomes publicly accessible and supporting ongoing community engagement through arts and health–based activities.

*Virtual exhibitions can be easily visited via desktop or mobile down below until January 2026.