Cilento, Italy, 1999Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved
Helsinki, Finland, 1973Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved
Solovki, White Sea, Russia, 1992Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved
Varanasi, India, 1999Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved
Vicki Bohannon, photo-eye Galleries Photographer-at-Large (Vicki creates those perfect Book Tease's as well as redesigning and rebuilding the Gallery space for every new installation), has been a great champion of Pentti Sammallahti long before he became well known outside of photography circles. His exquisite toned gelatin-silver prints are often wait listed.
"Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but he does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relationship, in which the power of brotherhood stemming from the environment frees man of his alienation and cosmic loneliness. Sammallahti is also known as a passionate seeker of the perfect printing method. The Opus series, launched by him, is an integral feature of contemporary Finnish book art."–photo-eye
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