Saara Vuola is a Finnish photographer and director, based between Italy and Helsinki.
She captures moments from real life; challenging documentary photography, documentary filmmaking and wedding photography traditions with an intimate gaze and textured voice. She creates worlds rich in naturality and storytelling – be it through the medium of photography, filmmaking, writing or a ceramics object.
Films screened internationally at Richard Harris International Film Festival, Ireland | Realasian Film Festival, Canada | Girls in 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'. And to not forget all the private persons, entrepreneurs and families documented too.
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








