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Sammallahti, Pentti
(b. 1950)Solovki, White Sea, Russia

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Solovki, White Sea, Russia. 1992. Pigment print on heavy vellum paper. 25 x 54,5 cm (sheet 48 x 77,5 cm). Signed, dated and annotated as artist proof by the photographer in pencil in lower margin. Framed under plexiglass in wooden frame.

The photographs of Pentti Sammallahti are imbued with the cool, subdued light of his native Finland. He began photographing at the age of eleven, influenced by his grandmother, a Swedish-born reportage photographer, and went on to develop a deeply personal visual language. His black-and-white images are marked by a quiet, almost timeless stillness, observing the coexistence of nature and human presence without imposing judgment or conflict; animals - especially dogs - recur as subtle protagonists within these landscapes. Blending documentary sensitivity with a poetic sensibility, Sammallahti’s work has influenced a generation of photographers and earned the admiration of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who included him among his one hundred favorite photographers for the inaugural exhibition of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris.