Saara Vuola is a photographer and director. She captures real life's small moments; challenging documentary photography, documentary filmmaking and wedding photography traditions with an intimate gaze and textured visual voice.
She creates worlds rich in texture and storytelling – be it through the medium of photography, filmmaking, writing or a ceramics object.

Films screened internationally: Richard Harris International Film Festival, Ireland | Realasian Film Festival, Canada | Girls on Film, online | Venezia Short Film Festival, Italy | Korean Film Festival, Canada | Lapinlahti Film Festival, Finland 

Commissioned photography for Bay Studios, Angelica Capri, Studio Savilla, Tara Junker, Emma Ranne, Nokonen, Triangolo Ischia, GEMMA; and cover photos for Emmi-Liia Sjöholm's book 'Kaskaat'. 

Exhibitions, residencies, books:  
'Ritual Summer 2024: The book' | photography book | 2026
Poesie e foto nordiche, Nordic Week | photography group exhibition | Italy | 2025 
Ispirati (d)alla natura | ceramics group exhibition | Italy | 2024 
Ritual Summer Gathering | photography group exhibition | Brooklyn, NYC | 2023 
Kino Guarimba, Italy | film residency | 2023 
Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residency, Finland | Artist residency | 2023

Coming in 2026 and 2027: 
Everywhere, Nowhere | collective exhibition in Italy and Norway