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President Urho Kekkonen ice fishing.

Zoom in on Kekkonen! the press photography exhibition open till the end of the year 2021

Find out more about the exhibition →
A scrap heap in front of an apartment building in Helsinki.

UA Saarinen’s press photos of scrap heaps from the 1950s cause confusion

Read more in the Kamera magazine (in Finnish) →
Näyttelijätär Ella Eronen.

Interview with press photographer Hannu Lindroos

Watch an interview with Hannu Lindroos on video (in Finnish) →

JOKA collections

People looking down from an observation tower.
Men building an asphalt road by hand.
A speed skier and car going down a snowy slope.
A Cadillac and people.
A nurse injecting a vaccine into a woman’s arm.
Two young boys wearing suspenders hold up their catch of fish.
A room with wall paintings, a grandfather clock and furniture.
Two women in Roma clothing and two girls in summer clothing in front of a display window.
A female skater’s shadow on the surface of the ice.
Ice-covered tractors at a lumber yard.
People running in different directions on a street.
Aira Samulin and Ekku Peltomäki holding coffee cups.
Vice President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson and two women in a convertible.
Javelin thrower Tiina Lillak wearing a tracksuit.
Schlager singer Anita Hirvonen with a dog.

JOKA – a world of millions of press photos

Press Photo Archive JOKA takes care of the preservation and availability of Finnish photojournalism.
A large number of the press photos in JOKA’s collections are original negatives, and only some of them have been digitised so far.

If you cannot find what you are looking for, please contact our customer service.
If you are also interested in other pictorial cultural heritage besides press photos, check out services:

Finnish Heritage Agency | Archaeological collections | The National Museum of Finland

For common use

A large number of JOKA’s photos can be freely downloaded and utilised. When using the photos, please adhere to the photo-specific licence, user instructions and good practice. Always mention the photographer and collection as well as JOKA / The Finnish Heritage Agency as the source.

Couldn’t find what you were looking for?

Only some of JOKA’s press photos have been digitised and made available through Finna. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please contact our customer service.

JOKA’s customer service →

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