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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11 comments:
...wundervolle Fotos, es gefällt mir alles sehr..
herzlich, Rachel
I love the first and second...have a perfect contrast and grays!
Absolutely stunning work: but then I am a fan of the Finnish Eye! I always find something beautiful to enjoy here on your blog.
Awesome. These photos stories within themselves.
Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous photographer! I am blown away. And I love, love, love his representations and visions of urban and rural animal life (a theme that has and continues to fascinate, and suprise me).
Pentti Sammalhati is an authentic revelation for me. Thank you so much for sharing!
wow I like it much ! Kathrin
just magnificent, these images! but of course, that's the way of this wonderful blog: magnificent! thank you so much for sharing such beauty with us all -
as an aside, i think perhaps i particularly love the way in which the inter-relationship of earth's creatures is portrayed in the last image - so poignantly beautiful!
such beauty.pgt
wonderful . the tird one is the kind that always catch my eye .
He is one of my favorite photographers...
such a strikingly wonderful style!
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