
Pentti Sammallahti
- Publisher
- Contrasto
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 9788869656347
- Specifications
- Paperback
12.5 x 19 cm
144 pages
66 pictures in black and white
Biographical and bibliographical notes
FotoNote series, directed by Robert Delpire
A selection of the pictures made during the journeys that took the photographer from Northern Europe to Africa and from Portugal to Japan. His work is a personal, dreamlike journey through land and space. Travelled at eye level or from a bird’s-eye view, the territory appears white, rarefied, sometimes mysterious and often as pale as snow; a land curiously inhabited by domestic animals that go their way in the solitude of an undefined place. The space we must inhabit, or at least know, is boundless, and his panoramic pictures enclose it in a literal continuity, in search of an elsewhere always present and always to be reached. From Helsinki, he is a man of the North: he cannot bear the sun or too much heat, but is in perfect harmony with the nature he contemplates with the intense gaze of an enchanted predator.