The Song of The River 

On nature, landscape and memory in the photographic work of Riitta Päiväläinen 

Essey by Kati Kivinen (Curator, KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Published in the catalog: Riitta Päiväläinen and Ari Saarto, "Tracing the Forgotten, The Dismissed, The Painful"

Published by Yumiko Chiba Associates, Japan
Printed by Heuristic Co.Ltd.


Lensculture Awards Winners 2020, Jurys pick

Each of Lensculture jury members selected one photographer to be awarded special distinction. 

Riitta Päiväläinen, FI/Selected by Jim Casper Editor-in-Chief, Lensculture  learn why

Rocks, rivers and roadside prayers: LensCulture Exposure awards – in pictures, Wed 12 Feb 2020, The Guardian

Of ice and intuition

Article (chinese) in Photoworld magazine, China, 2021
Interview by Alasdair Foster 

LOHAS magazine, The Art of Nature

Article (chinese) in LOHAS magazine, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hongkong, China, 2020



Shelter. Trollbunden – som hämtat ur fantasyvärldar

Exhibition "Shelter" review (swedish) 
Svenska Dagbladet, Kultur, 2019 by Clemens Poellinger



Seeing through the Senses

Colleción olorVISUAL 
Description of the image: Spindle, 2014, Series River Notes by Riitta Päiväläinen

Private vocabulary 

Text by Andréa Holzherr
Published in the artist book: Imaginary Meetings, 2009
Publisher Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany


Unohdettuja vaihtoehtoisia tarinoita

Artist interview ( finnish)
Published in Vieraana pohjoisen valossa, 2009
University of Lapland
by  Olli Tiuraniemi and Marjo Laukkanen