Weak Link, 2017
01 / The idea
Found,
never fabricated.
SDWLK ART begins with accidental images hiding in plain sight: cracks, paint, corrosion, shadows, and discarded material. Jussi Koria discovers a composition, frames it with a camera, and gives it a title.
The title is the second act of creation. It directs perception without changing the subject. What first appeared random becomes a face, a memory, a joke, or a cultural reference. Once seen, it is difficult to return to seeing nothing.
Location as evidenceEvery work can be geolocated to the precise place where it was discovered. The archive spans more than 15 cities in 10 countries, connecting each finished photograph to an ordinary, real-world surface.
Competition works
Every entry begins somewhere.
The current selection connects six discoveries across four cities in North and South America.
San FranciscoAtlantaSão PauloRio de JaneiroSan FranciscoTrue Colors
AtlantaXochipilli
São PauloBit Error
Rio de JaneiroWeak Link · Lava · Habit
The discovery
See what
Jussi saw.
The wider scene documents where the artwork was found. The photograph beside it reveals the image hidden inside the ordinary environment.
Video Game
Lava
02 / Selected works
Look once.
Read the title.
Look again.
03 / Process
Discover→Frame→Title
01Walk without a fixed subject. Notice marks and surfaces that were never intended as images.
02Use the camera to isolate the accidental composition and record its geographic location. The original scene is found, not staged.
03Name the work. The title invites the viewer to complete the act of recognition.
“The photograph does not manufacture the artwork. It reveals the moment when the ordinary becomes impossible to ignore.”
.ART Award 2026
04 / The story
A living archive of accidental art.
SDWLK ART is an ongoing photographic practice built around observation rather than intervention. The works begin in ordinary environments, where weather, wear, construction, and chance have already produced unexpected images. Koria does not arrange these subjects or digitally invent their forms. His role is to recognize the image, decide where it begins and ends, photograph it, record its geographic location, and give it a title. Every work can be geolocated, anchoring the act of discovery to a specific place.
The title changes how the photograph is read. It creates a bridge between an accidental mark and the viewer's imagination. That moment of recognition is central to the work: a visual fragment that belonged to no one becomes an encounter shared by artist and viewer. SDWLK ART asks what authorship can mean when creation begins with attention, and whether art is sometimes less about making a new object than learning to see what is already present.
Competition draft: final work records will include confirmed print dimensions, materials, edition details, and processing information.
05 / Artist
Jussi Koria
Jussi Koria is a Finnish-born photographic artist whose practice is rooted in observation, curiosity, and the discovery of unintended imagery in everyday environments. His ongoing SDWLK ART series finds figurative and abstract compositions in surfaces shaped by use, weather, wear, and chance. Rather than staging scenes, Koria works through attention: walking, noticing, framing, and naming. The titles are integral to the photographs, offering viewers a point of entry that can transform an ordinary mark into a character, event, emotion, or cultural reference. His international perspective has sharpened an interest in how people interpret the same visual information differently. Through SDWLK ART, Koria treats seeing as a creative act and the surrounding world as an open, constantly changing archive of images waiting to be recognized.