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CV Sakari Viika Born in Helsinki in 1956. Photographer living and working in Helsinki. www.sakariviika.com 1973 Spring outing to the Suomenlinna island fortress off Helsinki. Instead of a guitar Sakari Viika took along a borrowed Yashica camera and roll of colour negative film. Decided to become a photographer. 1977 Traded his Fender Telecaster for a Leica M3. 1978 The founding of the Hippolyte Photography Gallery in Helsinki. Among first ones important exhibitions by - Pentti Sammallahti: “Cathleen ni Houlihan”, an Irish Portfolio - W. Eugene Smith - Christer Strömholm: “Privata Bilder”... Edouard Boubat,   Robert Frank, Paul Strand, William Klein... 1980 Began to document visual art and the work of artists.Began to photograph for newspapers and magazines. 1981 First exhibition in a small gallery ran by group of jewellery and craft artists in Helsinki. Article by Jan Kaila in the magazine Valokuva. 1981 Met Outi Heiskanen who taught adventures, art, solitaire and slot machines. 1982–1986 Travelling around Finland and to Norway, Iceland, Portugal and Spain with the Jack Helen Brut performance group. The group received the State Art Prize in 1985. 1983 Joint exhibition Siirrettävä Tuonela (Movable Tuonela). 1986 Exhibition together with Satu Kiljunen at Galerie Pelin. 1989 Photographed Maaria Wirkkala’s environmental work Samaan aikaan toisaalla (Meanwhile in Another Place) which also became a publication. 1990 – The boom period of contemporary dance in Finland. Photography assignments led to several exhibitions of dance themes, in Helsinki, Kuopio, Turku, Paris, Budapest and Krefeld. Began to photograph opera and ballet in the late 1990s. 2000 Palmun jäljillä (On the Trail of Chief Inspector Palmu) for the Helsinki Festival. 2003 Exhibition in the Project Room of the Finnish Museum of Photography. 2009 Exhibition and book Heavy Light, Galleria Ama, Helsinki.

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