Sammallahti pentti biography sample

Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Growing up, he was surrounded by the works of his grandmother, Hildur Larsson (1882-1952), a Swedish-born photographer, who worked for the Helsinki newspaper Kaiku in the early 1900s.

After visiting the exhibition The Family of Man at the Helsinki Art Hall (1961) Sammallahti made his first photographs at age eleven. Pentti joined the Helsinki Camera Club in 1964.

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His first solo exhibition was in 1971.

Sammallahti has traveled widely as a photographer, from his native Scandinavia, across the Soviet Republics through Siberia, to Japan, India, Nepal, Morocco, Turkey, across Europe and Great Britain, and even to South Africa.

 Sammallahti’s travels and interest in fine printing and lithography has led him to publish numerous portfolios of which the largest and most well-known is The Russian Way (1996).  As a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography, his work has a supernatural se