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Lehtonen,
Kimmo
Eelis
(DOB
May
4th
1962,
Maaninka,
FINLAND)
PROFILE
A specialist in visual culture with a long-standing cultural and academic career. Known speaker
on associated topics having participated in a number of international forums and conferences.
Wide-ranging track record in curating, organising and managing inter-cultural and inter-
disciplinary events and programs. Experience in fund-raising at EU level. Strong international
network of contacts.
WORK
EXPERIENCE
2012-2013 The Centre for Creative Photography, Jyväskylä, Finland
Director
- Full-time employment in preparation for the Centre´s 25th Anniversary year
- Responsible for full program profile and finances
- Curating exhibitions, planning publications and anniversary year events
- Fund-raising, marketing and co-operation with other national photographic centres
- Initiated a 5-year Nordic-Baltic artistic and cultural documentation program of urban
regeneration starting with the Kangas-project in Jyväskylä.
- after Anniversary year a chairman of the board position continues (1994 - )
1991-2011 University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Lecturer, senior assitant, university teacher
2005-2011 International Masters programme on Digital Culture
- one of three specialist programmes on this topic in Finland with a global student body
- in addition to regular lectures, responsible for PhD seminar tuition from 2008, and was a
PhD reviewer in 2012 (Mari Pienimäki, JyU)
1993-2005 Studies In Visual Communication
- Invited to design and manage this new programme. Fully co-ordinated and managed
from its inception
- Co-currently , Memeber of the Board of the MA programme on Electronic
Photojournalism, (TaUniv., JYU, UIAH)
1991-1992 Postgraduate researcher
- Fully funded by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation and the Leo ja Regina Weinstein
Foundation
1996-2011 Member of the University Arts Board

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INTERNATIONAL
NETWORKS
AND
PROGRAMS
Visiting professor, lecturer, curator and program co-ordinator in numerous national and
international programs, including the following.
Programs and International Co-Operation:
- Moving Stories EU FP7 Applicant, Member of Co-ordinator Board, 2010–2011
- Seeing Europe Through a Stranger’s Eyes EU-funded project, Directing Delegate, 2008-
2010
- Immanence of Amity, research project with Æsa Sigurjonsdottir, Nordisk Kulturfondet,
2007
- Nordic Network on Photography, Member of the Board 2007 – 2010
- International Photography Research Network (IPRN) Member of the Board 2004 -2009.
Director of the Changing Faces 2nd conference SHIFTS in 2006
Visiting Lectures:
2013
- Conference presentation, IVSA, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
2011
- Conference speaker, XI Profiles, Profiles of Education, Poznan, Poland.
2010
- Keynote: Diffusion of Photography in Europe conference, Universidad Politechnica
Valencia, Spain.
- Keynote: SETSE, Family in Photography, Seminar, Liptovski Mikulas, Slovakia.
- Keynote: SETSE, Fotografia Europea Festival/European Families, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
- Member of the Steering Board, panel chair, Photography Next, Nordiska Museet, Sweden.
2009
- Facilitator, speaker, Arts, Violence and Imagination, The Finnish Institute, London.
- Keynote: First Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) Singapore.
- Panel Chair, Mind and Matter, Nordic Conference for Art Historians, Jyväskylä, Finland.
2008
- Invited lecturer, Frankfurt Art Forum, Summer Academy, Germany.
2007
- Keynote: MARGINS, Changing Faces Conference, Slovakia.
- Facilitator, speaker, Asian European Foundation Young Photography, Cork, Dublin.
- Numerous other lectures on photography, semiotics, visual rhetorics, cultural studies,
digital culture and media at different European academic institutions.

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CURATING
- Curator, Kangas, katoava tehdas, Alvar Aalto –museum and Centre for Creative Photography
2014 - , Jyväskylä, Finland
- Chairman of a jury, International Photo Awards, in 7th Foto Biennali 2011, Poznan, Poland
- Curator, ”Arts, Violence and Imagination” Centre of Excellence on Political Thought and
Conceptual Change; Politics and the Arts Group and the Finnish Institute, London, 2009
- Curator, On FinnIce, Nordic Contemporary Photography, Vilnius Lithuania 2008
- Curator, Work 3# IPRN exhibition, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland 2007
- Curator of Jatulintarha, Finnish-UK art exhange project (14 residential exhibitions in Finland
and the United Kingdom) 1998 – 2001
- Curator of ’40-Days In Wilderness’, International conceptual photography, Jyväskylä,1998
- Curator of ’Landscape '97’, Nordic Contemporary Photographic Art 1997
- Curator of LUMO, International triennale, Jyväskylä, Finland, 1995 –
EDUCATION
PhD, University of Jyväskylä, Contemporary Culture 2011
MPhil., University of Jyväskylä, Contemporary Culture 2004
M.A., University of Jyväskylä, Sociology (politics, communication) 1990
OTHER
Finnish Museum of Photography Member of the Board of Research ,1998 – 2007
Member of Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists 2001 -
Member in Oracle (International network for curators on Photography) 2001-
Finnish Society of Culture Studies (Kulttuurintutkimuksen seura) 2009 -
Four private exhibitions of photography 1982, 1990, 1992, 1993
Taken part in 12 group exhibitions 1985 – 2009

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PUBLICATIONS
Academic
Publications:
- Kimmo Lehtonen (2014) Finnish Photography 1939-1971 in (Gerry Badger et. al) History of
20th Century European Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (2011) Rhetoric of The Visual – Metaphor in a Still Image, University of
Jyväskylä (PhD –work). Jyväskylä Studies in Humanities 166, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (2010) Finnish Photography 1900-1938 in (Gerry Badger et. al) History of
20th Century European Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (Ed.) (2010) Families of Food, Seeing Europe Through The Strangers’ Eyes.
The Centre For Creative Photography and Poznan Academy of Arts, Poznan, Poland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen and Ute Eskildsen (2008) (Eds.) Work 3#, Comments on Commissions.
University of Sunderland, UK and The Centre for Creative Photography, Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (2007) Pirates! in Sumiala-Seppänen and Machetti (Eds.):Images and
Communities, Gaudeamus, Helsinki, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (2007) Exposed Transparencies in (Changing Faces) WORK 5, University of
Leiden, Paradox, IPRN, Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (ed) (2006), SHIFTS, archives in dialogue and new identities in
documentarism (Illustrated), university of Sunderland, UK and The Centre For Creative
Photography, Jyväskläy, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (2004) ”Teknologisoitu lumi” (Technologised Snow), in
Heinonen, Kirstinä Kovala (Eds.) Ilmaisun murroksia, SKS, Helsinki, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (2003) Teemu Ankasta teknologisoituun lumeen, M.Phil work, University of
Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (1999) ”Maisema topografian jälkeen” (Landscape after topography), in Jukka
Kukkonen and Tuomo Vuorenmaa (eds.) Varjosta (From the shade), Finnish Museum of
Photography, Helsinki, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (1996) "Itse aiheutettu myöhästyminen", in Tapio Aittola (eds.)
Teknologiapohjaiset oppimisympäristöt (Technology-based learning environments). Faculty of
Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (1996) ”On The Relatioship between Visuality and Rhetoric”, in Tuija
Parvikko Tuija and Jukka Kanerva (eds.) Exploring the Chronospace of Images. SoPhi, Jyväskylä,
Finland.

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- Kimmo Lehtonen (1996) "Pullonhengestä toiseen todellisuuteen" in Tuote kulttuurissa (Product
in culture), in Niininen Petri (Ed.) University of Arts and Design, Helsinki, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (ed.) (1991) Mainoskuva – mielikuva. (Advertising Image – A Vision)
VAPK-publishing, Helsinki, Finland.
Art
Publications:
- Kimmo Lehtonen et.al. (2014) KANGAS, metamorfoosi 1. The Centre for Creative
Photography, Jyväskylä Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (2014) A City of Smiling Mysteries, in Maria Teresa Garcia Quito, Ecuador
(article and picture editing)
- Kimmo Lehtonen (ed.) (2010) Gati & Kapa The Centre for Creative Photography 2010,
Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (ed. (2009) Luigi Gariglio 2 a.m. Family Business Society. Centre for
Creative Photography, Jyväskylä Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Cinicello, Milan, Italy.
- Editor of academic cataloques of Lumo –exhibitions (International Triennale on Photobased
Art) in 1995, 1998 and 2001, 2004.Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (ed.) (2001) JATULINTARHA, CD-ROM. Published by: University of
Jyväskylä, Finland and Cumbria Institute of Arts & Design, UK.
- Kimmo Lehtonen (Photography and layout) (1999) SEMMARIT, an illustrated musical note
book, Musiikkifarmi Oy, ER-Paino, Lievestuore, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen and Mikko Hietaharju (Eds.) (1996) Lapsen paras kamera, Suomen koulujen
suurjuhla kirja. Koululaisten suurjuhlat, Helsinki and The Centre For Creative Photography,
Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen, Matti Könönen (1992) Vehmersalmi - Suvaksen sylissä, (photography),
Leppävirta, Finland.
- Kimmo Lehtonen, Matti Könönen (1990), Leppävirta, Elämää ja ihmisiä, (photography),
Leppävirta, Finland.