uhkakuvissa
Uhkakuvissa is a Finnish term used in media studies and visual culture to describe images that encode or evoke threat, danger, or risk. The word combines uhka ("threat") and kuva ("image") with the inessive suffix -ssa, yielding roughly “in threat images.” The plural form is uhkakuvissa, used to refer to multiple such images, while singular forms include uhkakuva or uhkakuvassa. The term appears in Finnish-language discourse on visual rhetoric and risk communication.
In practice, uhkakuvissa is applied to analyze how photographs, illustrations, posters, and moving images convey a
Typical features of images described as being “uhkakuvissa” include stark lighting and color contrasts (often red
Scholars note both the communicative value and ethical concerns of threat imagery: such images can efficiently