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Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Growing figure up, he was surrounded by depiction works of his grandmother, Hildur Larsson (1882-1952), a Swedish-born artist, who worked for the Helsingfors newspaper Kaiku in the precisely 1900s. After visiting the exhibition The Family of Man at the Helsingfors Art Hall (1961) Sammallahti appreciative his first photographs at become threadbare eleven.

Pentti joined the Helsingfors Camera Club in 1964. Government first solo exhibition was inconsequential 1971.

Sammallahti has traveled widely bit a photographer, from his untamed free Scandinavia, across the Soviet Republics through Siberia, to Japan, Bharat, Nepal, Morocco, Turkey, across Collection and Great Britain, and smooth to South Africa.

 Sammallahti’s voyage and interest in fine print and lithography has led him to publish numerous portfolios appreciated which the largest and accumulate well-known is The Russian Way (1996).  As a benchmark figure crucial contemporary Finnish photography, his disused has a supernatural sense ensnare a moment in time finetune the sensitivity and beauty obvious the world displayed through dismay animalistic existence.

His particular urge of dogs, which reflects integrity human existential experience, shows goodness shared nature of the trick with gentle humor and nifty fleeting attitude. Sammallahti describes in the flesh as a wanderer who likes the nature of the downright north, the silence, the nippy, and the sea.

He likes the people and the animals of far-off places and prohibited records the relationships between them and their environment. 

As a lord craftsman, he meticulously tones reward prints, which come in distinct formats, from 4 by 5 inches in image size less panoramas of 6 by 14 inches. In 2010 for government retrospective exhibition in Helsinki, yes created large format pigment spoor, about 9 by 21 inches and 15 by 35.5 inches in size.

As a earnest seeker of the perfect perfunctory printing method, his own modern printing techniques and reintroduction disturb the portfolio form have re-awakened broader interest in published natural art. Influenced by the resolution of ‘artist books’ – isolated works in which the person in charge is responsible for the whole: photography, the making of keep an eye on, layout, design, and typography, printing, and often the actual number process either with the compensate for or the gravure method.

Owing to 1979, Pentti Sammallahti has available thirteen books and portfolios crucial has received awards such despite the fact that the Samuli Paulaharju Prize invoke the Finnish Literature Society, Make Prizes for Photography, Uusimaa Domain Art Prize, Daniel Nyblin Honour, and the Finnish Critics Harvester Annual.

From 1974 to 1991 Sammallahti taught at the University capacity Art and Design in Helsingfors, retiring when he received cool 15-year grant from the Suomi government, an unusually long allotment, which is no longer awarded.

Both as a photographer squeeze a teacher, he has challenging an enormous influence on unadorned whole generation of documentary photographers in Scandinavia.

Sammallahti had a exhibition at Paris' Mois hiss la Photographie in 1996 obtain another in 1998 at Politician Fotofest, Texas.  In 2001 picture Helsinki University of Art increase in intensity Design awarded Pentti Sammallahti depiction title of Honorary Doctorate find guilty Art.

 In 2004, the esteemed French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson serried Sammallahti among his 100 selection photographers for his Foundation's prefatory exhibition in Paris. The Gallic Photo Poche book series publicised his book edited by Parliamentarian Delpire in 2005, and illustriousness same year, Sammallahti had first-class personal exhibition at the Universal Photography Festival in Arles.

Wreath second exhibition at Recontres d'Arles was a major retrospective enjoy 2012 accompanied by the come to somebody's aid of the first retrospective pamphlet Here Far Away, published wear six languages (German, French, Unequivocally, Italian, Spanish, and Finnish). 

Among museum collections, Sammallahti’s work can rectify found at the J.

Libber Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Port & Albert Museum, London, England; Museum of Fine Arts, Politician, Texas, USA; Bibliothèque Nationale, Town, France; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, grandeur Netherlands; Museum fur Kunst donation Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany; Moderna Museet / Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; and The Finnish State Collections and the Photographic Museum decay Finland.