Pionjärfotografen dog i Stockholmsbranden

Claire Aho (2 November 1925 - 29 November 2015) was a pioneering Finnish photographer. She started her career in the 1940s at the Aho & Soldan company, owned by her family. In the 1950s and 1960s, she was an early proponent of colour photography in Finland. Her photos have been exhibited in Kiel and London among others. A major retrospective of her work was held in Helsinki in 2011. Born in Helsinki, she was the daugher of Finnish film director Heikki Aho son of the Finnish national author Juhani Aho and his artist wife Venny Soldan-Brofeldt. Her mother Dinah was Latvian. Claire Aho moved to Sweden in 1974 where she worked as an photographer in for several newspapers inlucing Hufvudstadsbladet and with Nordic Museum. She died in Stockholm on 29 November 2015 in a fire in her home