Ulla Shemeikka: Listen Listen Listen, Shwedagon pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar

Yangon is a multicultural city where the world’s religions and beliefs meet. The sacred blends into everyday life.
I lived in Yangon, Myanmar, from 2021 to 2026. The photographs in the Listen Listen Listen series were created during that time. I photographed people and details in the sacred places of different religions. By being open and politely asking permission to photograph, I always found a common language through kindness.

About the artist
Ulla Shemeikka (b. 1969, Kuopio) is a Helsinki-based photographic artist whose works arise from curiosity and respect for nature, cultures, ways of life and worldviews. She is fascinated by the presence of silence, timelessness and mystery in art, and her photographs combine the visual languages of photography and painting. Shemeikka graduated in visual arts from the Kankaanpää Art School in 1994 and received her MA in photography from the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 2001. Her works have been exhibited in Finland and abroad since 1994, including Belgium, Germany and Turkey.

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The Association of Photographic Artists is participating in the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation´s (Luonnonperintösäätiö) campaign that is raising funds for the Art Forest (Taiteen metsä). The artist donates 5 € and the Association of Photographic Artists doubles the donation.