Lotta Lemetti is a photographer and visual artist from Finland. She’s the winner of Latitude Life APS international photography competition 2019 with her photography project Kekta as well as Creative Career center’s Ad Open call winner of 2018 with her work The Ordinary. At this point of her career she has refined unique vision, which embraces the beauty of the simple and mundane. Her minimal aesthetic carries through the diverse work she loves to make and she’s not afraid to use alternative processes, mixed media and graphic design in her image making.

She has been working alongside photographer Leila Fakouri for many major fashion and advertising clients in North America and art directed two issues of FAYN magazine together with visual artist Amanda Rowan. Her positive attitude, ambition and work moral led her to be selected as one of the three Finnish undergraduate students to come study in the US as a Fulbright Scholar. Her work has already been exhibited in galleries and shows in New York City, Los Angeles, Colorado, Italy, Belgium, France, Greece and Finland.

Awards & Grants

2023 Serlachius Artist Residency, Mänttä, Finland

2023 City of Vantaa Artists Grant

2021 Helsinki Photofestival Fearless (shortlisted)

2020 IPA 2020 Photography Awards, Honorable mention (Kekta)

2020 Helsinki Photofestival Portfolio Review Runner Up (Kekta)

2020 Taiteilija-apuraha, Taiteen ja kulttuurin edistämiskeskus

2019 Latitude Life APS Photographer of the Year

2019 CCC Ad Open Call Winner

2018 City of Vantaa Artist Grant

2016 City of Vantaa Artist Grant

2015-2019 Fulbright Grantee

Exhibitions

2024 Just Women, Group exhibition, ImageNation, Paris, France

2023 True Blue, Group exhibition, Aleksanterin Linna, Serlachius museot

2022 In Connection, Group exhibition, Domatio Art Space, Athens, Greece

2021 Xmas mARkeT, Gumbostrand Konst & Form, Finland

2021 Another Yesterday, Galleria K, Vantaa, Finland (virtual)

2020 Transitions, Gallery Peinture Fraïche, Brussels

2020 Transitions and Displacements, Gallery Millepiani, Rome

2020 Photo LA, Los Angeles

2019 Photoville, Brooklyn, New York

2018 Nature of Culture, Los Angeles

2017 Tideline, Manhattan, New York

2016 Photoville, Brooklyn, New York

2015 Mundane, Helsinki, Finland