Pentti Sammallahti

Pentti Sammallahti (2017)

Pentti Sammallahti (born February 18, 1950 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish photographer .

Life

Sammallahti joined the Helsinki Camera Club as a student in 1964. He began studying art history, musicology and mathematics at the University of Helsinki in 1970 without graduating. For three years, from 1970 to 1973, he was also head of the black and white and color laboratory of the photographer Matti A. Pitkänen. After his first solo exhibition in 1971, he was invited to join the Imago 6 group in Helsinki. From 1974 to 1976 he taught photography at the Lahti Art School. Sammallahti began experimenting systematically with photo reproductions and ink printing in 1980. From 1984 to 1991 he began teaching printing techniques at the College of Art and Design (now Aalto University ). Sammallahti made numerous photo trips, including a. to Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. In 1989 he went on a photo tour with Kristoffer Albrecht to China and Japan. Sammallahti photographs in black and white, often with a panoramic camera .

Exhibitions

Sammallahti has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. These include, for example:

• 1974 Mullasta taivaalle Finnish Museum of Photography
• 1977 Solo exhibition at Gotland Künstlerhaus Visby
• 1996 Solo exhibition at Mois de la Photographie Paris
• 2010 Finnish Museum of Photography retrospective
• 2011 Solo exhibition at the Rencontres d'Arles

Awards

• 1980 Prize from the Finnish Association of Critics
• 1991 state artist grant for 15 years
• 2013 German Photo Book Prize for Far Away , Photographs from 1964–2011

Works

Artist portfolios

Sammallahti has published numerous artist portfolios in small editions in Helsinki. Selection:

• 1979 Cathleen Ni Houlihan Opus 1
• 1983 The Nordic Night Opus 2 and Opus 4
• 1983 En kenenkään elävän vihamies Opus 3
• 1984 Andante Opus 5
• 1986 Rannalla Opus 6
• 1987 Honnos, My Fiddler Opus 8
• 1996 The Russian Way Opus 31, with a foreword by John Berger

Further publications

• 2002 Sammallahti , Nazraeli Press, Tucson USA
• 2005 Pentti Sammallahti , Photo Poche # 103 France
• 2012 here far away - here far away , photographs 1964–2011, Peliti Associati Italy, Kehrer Verlag Germany ISBN 978-3-86828-354-9

Web links

• Pentti Sammallahti at www.zeit.de
• Pentti Sammallahti at theguardian.com
• Pentti Sammallahti at webcitation.org ( Memento from January 11, 2011 on WebCite )

Individual evidence

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