Relate North Tradition and Innovation Exhibition. Syktyvkar, Russia. November 11-19, 2019. Tiina’s Mother photographic series is about discovering the lives of the women and their families living in the Arctic. There are some remote communities like Peltovuoma in the Finnish Lapland that welcome family for visits and carry out the memories of childhood winters. These communities bloom in the summertime when white nights prevail, and one can see the silent growth and buzz of nature. These moments are needed to recuperate for the forthcoming winter and darkness. It is so difficult to go to sleep when you want to restore the light in your skin and remember this for the forthcoming darkness. Summer includes the visits of more faraway family to revitalize your relationships and origins in the north. Visits of more remote family members bring the familiarity of the locations, names, and geographies that you learned as a child into our focus and attention. These pictures are about connecting with Tiina’s mother and family history in the far north. It’s important to keep the collective memory and even cherish some locations where the families come together.