Minnie Mäkinen is a photographer and visual artist. She was born in Finland, grew up in Brazil and Switzerland, and studied art in Florence, Italy, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Photography & New Media.

Finnish artist Minni Mäkinen combines still-life photography with digital painting to create multi-layered, abstract compositions that explore themes such as transition, time, and identity. By using her still-life photographs as digital paint, Mäkinen constructs dynamic works that capture movement and distortion, reflecting the moments between moments and the interplay between the past and its influence on individual and collective identities.