Activestills – Documenting life, death and resistance in Palestine

Photo: Mohammed Zaanoun, Gaza city, 2023

Exhibition of the Activestills photography collective at the Finnish Museum of Photography (The Cable Factory, Kaapeliaukio 3, Helsinki) 9.5.–31.8.2025. Since 2005, the Activestills photography collective has been documenting Israeli colonial violence and Palestinian resistance.

This exhibition presents a selection of the collective’s work of over two decades, focusing on the attacks on Gaza and the current genocide, the ongoing ethnic cleansing across Palestine as well as the remains of villages depopulated by Zionist forces in 1948. Activestills’ work strives to portray Palestinians not only as victims but as individuals and a people with diverse political agency in their struggle. Activestills perceives its work of documenting and archiving as a form of narrative reclamation and resistance to the colonial practice of destruction, control, co-option, appropriation and erasure against Palestinian lives and voices.

Find out more about the exhibition and the opening hours and tickets of the museum here.