{"id":25183,"date":"2025-10-03T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/?p=25183"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:17:13","slug":"antti-sepponen-awarded-the-2025-young-hero-grant-by-the-jouko-lehtola-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/2025\/10\/03\/antti-sepponen-awarded-the-2025-young-hero-grant-by-the-jouko-lehtola-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Antti Sepponen Awarded the 2025 Young Hero Grant by the Jouko Lehtola Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"369\">The <strong data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"163\">Jouko Lehtola Foundation<\/strong> has awarded the <em data-start=\"180\" data-end=\"198\">Young Hero Grant<\/em>, dedicated to supporting documentary photography, to<strong> Antti Sepponen<\/strong> from Lahti. This year\u2019s recipient was chosen from among ten nominees by film director Virpi Suutari.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"703\">Now presented for the third time, the grant is awarded to a promising documentary photographer under the age of 36 who demonstrates an \u201centhusiastic approach\u201d to photography. On this occasion, the Young Hero Grant was awarded in collaboration with the Association of Photographic Artists. The grant carries a value of 5,000 euros. Sepponen\u2019s exhibition will be presented at <strong>Photographic Gallery Hippolyte in Helsinki from 28 November to 21 December, 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"703\">The other finalists are: Joshua Cockroft, Venla Kaasinen, Minna Karhunen, Sylvester Kivel\u00e4, Anni Porrasm\u00e4ki, Mortti Saarnia, Henrietta Soininen, Niko Tampio, and Atte Tolonen.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"51\" data-end=\"369\">The <strong data-start=\"55\" data-end=\"83\">Jouko Lehtola Foundation<\/strong> was established in 2011. Its purpose is to support young creators engaged in documentary photography, as well as to preserve and promote awareness of the artistic work of its founder. The foundation organises exhibitions, participates in their realisation, and produces publications.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"820\" data-end=\"914\"><em><strong data-start=\"820\" data-end=\"912\">The Association of Photographic Artists warmly congratulates the recipient of the grant!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"820\" data-end=\"914\">More information:<br data-start=\"388\" data-end=\"391\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/joukolehtola.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"391\" data-end=\"445\">https:\/\/joukolehtola.com\/<\/a><br data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"448\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anttisepponen.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"448\" data-end=\"512\">https:\/\/www.anttisepponen.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jouko Lehtola Foundation has awarded the Young Hero Grant, dedicated to supporting documentary photography, to Antti Sepponen from Lahti. This year\u2019s recipient was chosen from among ten nominees by film director Virpi Suutari. Now presented for the third time, the grant is awarded to a promising documentary photographer under the age of 36 who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ajankohtaista-en","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25390,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183\/revisions\/25390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippolyte.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}