Harri Pälviranta

His works are part of collections such as the Finnish State Art Commission, Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Finnish Museum of Photography, Tampere Art Museum, Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife and WAM Turku City Art Museum. As a young artist, Pälviranta was awarded the PhotoEspana Discovery Award in 2007.

Battered is a series photographed in 2006–2007 in Finland. It focuses on banal street violence. In Battered, Pälviranta wishes to show the real faces of person-to-person violence. The series consists of 35 portraits of battered people.

News Portraits depict the perpetrators of the 10 most fatal school shootings from 1999 until 2014.

Pälviranta started his academic studies in 1993 at the Tampere University, majoring in political sciences. In 1996, he moved to Turku to study photography at the Turku Arts Academy and received his BFA in 2000. In 2002, he started studying media studies at the University of Turku, receiving MA in 2005. In 2007 he moved to Helsinki to work on his doctoral thesis at the Aalto University, and he successfully defended the thesis (EXPERIENCING REALITY IN AN ART EXHIBITION. Encountering violence-related documentary photography in a gallery context) in 2012, earning a Doctor of Arts degree.

Harri Pälviranta (born 1971 in Tampere, Finland) is a visual artist who uses mostly photography but also moving images and archival approach. Pälviranta is also a researcher, who specializes in photography studies and theories of the documentary.

The Price of Our Liberty deals with the question of the blood offering. The series is based on a book published in 1941, also titled Vapautemme hinta. Pälviranta scanned all the 26 662 fallen soldiers presented in the book and reworked the pictures into an artwork.