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January 24, 2011
Pentti Sammallahti is one of Finland's best known photographers.From 1974 to 1991 Sammallahti taught photography at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, where he and his workgroups created there a culture of high quality photographic printing and printing using photomechanical processes. His work tends to explore the relationship between humans, animals and nature. He manages to somehow combine a rather formal Finnish aesthetic with a wry Scandinavian sense of humor.
Pentti Sammallahti, Solovki, White Sea, Russia, 1992
Sammallahti is also one of those photographers who want to be engaged in the entire photographic process. Not just the taking of the photograph, but the developing and printing as well. With his art books, which are necessarily printed in small number limited editions, Sammallahti takes the photographs, makes the prints, designs the layout, selects the typography, and has even been known to operate the rotogravure printing presses.
Pentti Sammallahti, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1999
His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but he does not put humanbeings and the environment in opposite camps.
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