Activestills – Documenting life, death and resistance in Palestine
Since 2005, the Activestills photography collective has been documenting Israeli colonial violence and Palestinian resistance.  

Activestills was formed by activist photographers who wanted to document and support Palestinian popular resistance. The collective sees its work as part of the struggle against all forms of oppression, racism, and violations of the basic right to freedom. Activestills’ constantly evolving online archive consists of more than 56,000 photos documenting life and death under Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid.

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.  

Finnish Museum of Photography

9.5.-31.8.2025

Tue-Fri 11.00-19.00

Sat-Sun 11.00-18.00

Admission fee 0-16€