Meeri Matilda Koutaniemi
Photographer
Photographer who has shot stories of struggle across more than 40 countries. She won the Photographer of the Year in Finland and won the category of Foreign Reportage for her Taken series in 2012 and 2013.
She posted her first photo to Instagram on May 2014. It was the book cover of Dieter Scholz's Art and Agenda Political Art and Activism.
She is a founding member of Italian Photo Agency Echo and Finnish Collective 11.
She started dating Sami Yaffa in March 2016.
She and Chuck Close are both award winning photographers.