Minna Rainio (1974) is a photographer and media artist based in northern Finland. She studied photography in the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in England (BA) and audiovisual media culture in the University of Lapland (MA). At the moment she is working on her PhD in the Elomedia research school (University of Art & Design in Helsinki). In her art Rainio combines the use of photography or video with fact and fiction to deal with the social and political issues relating to people’s personal histories, stories and memories.
