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Pentti Sammallahti 1950
Vit à Helsinki, Finland. Travaille dans Helsinki, Finland.
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Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen
Pentti Sammallahti (born Helsinki 1950) is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. He began photographing at 11 and by 1971 began to travel and exhibit extensively throughout the world. Sammallahti’s travels across Europe, Scandinavia, Siberia, the far East and Africa, combined with his interest in fine printing and lithography, led him to publish numerous portfolios such as Ici et Loin (Actes Sud, 2012). He has received awards such as the Samuli Paulaharju Prize of the Finnish Literature Society, State Prizes for Photography, Uusimaa Province Art Prize, Daniel Nyblin Prize, and the Finnish Critics Association Annual, and has been represented at art fairs and in exhibitions in Europe and the USA for over four decades.
Sammallahti’s work has a supernatural sense of a moment suspended in time, with the sensitivity and beauty of the world displayed through its animalistic existence. As a wanderer and master craftsman Sammallahti records the relationships he discovers between people and animals in the far-off places he visits. As a passionate seeker of the perfect mechanical printing method, his own innovative printing techniques and reintroduction of the portfolio form have re-awakened broader interest in published photographic art.
Oeuvres d'art
Articles
Médias
Points forts
Recommandations
Collections
Expositions
Position sur le marché
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Oeuvres de Pentti Sammallahti
Médias
An interview with Pentti Sammallhatti about his work, 2016.
expositions
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COLLECTIONS
Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Nice Audiovisuel, Nice, France
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Moderna Museet/ Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Finnish State Collections
Photographic Museum of Finland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
When frost was spectre-grey, The Photographers' Gallery, London, England
2013
Here Far Away, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY (February 27-April 27)
2012
Here Far Away, Camera Obscura Gallery, Paris, France
Here Far Away, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Pentti Sammallahti, Retrospective, Recontres d'Arles, France, Summer, 2012
2011
The Extra/Ordinary World of Pentti Sammallahti, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Retrospective at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Pentti Sammallahti: Images rares ou recentes, Box Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Pentti Sammallahti, Candace Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Northern Light, Candace Dwan/ Nailya Alexander Galleries, New York, New York
2005
Pentti Sammallahti, personal exhibition at Arles International Photography Festival, France
2004
Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation's opening exhibition in Paris, for which Cartier-Bresson chooses 100 of
his favorite photographers
1998
Pennti Sammallahti, Houston FotoFest, Houston, TX
1996
Solo exhibition at Paris' Mois de la Photographie, leading to regular exhibitions at international
photography events in Europe, Asia, America and Africa
1979
First portfolio Cathleen Ní Houlihan, a travelling exhibition, Helsinki, Finland
1977
First solo exhibition abroad at the Gotland artists' house in Visby. Followed by solo exhibitions in twenty
countries.
1976
Uusia sarjoja exhibition at the Finnish Museum of Photography.
1974
Mullasta taivaalle exhibition at the Finnish Museum of Photography.
1971
First solo exhibition Kaupunki on painajainen.
AWARDS
2001 He was awarded the title of Honorary Doctorate in Art by the University of Art and Design.
1991 He was awarded the Finnish State's 15-year artist's grant.1980 Finnish Critics' Association's Kritiikin
kannukset award
1975 He received his first State Art Award for Photographic Art (he was also awarded in 1979, 1992,
2009).
1968 He received First Prize in a cultural meet between Sweden and Finland at the Anderson Art
Museum in Helsinki
1966 He received a prize in the “Junge Fotografen zeigen Europa” competition
Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Nice Audiovisuel, Nice, France
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Moderna Museet/ Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Finnish State Collections
Photographic Museum of Finland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
When frost was spectre-grey, The Photographers' Gallery, London, England
2013
Here Far Away, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY (February 27-April 27)
2012
Here Far Away, Camera Obscura Gallery, Paris, France
Here Far Away, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Pentti Sammallahti, Retrospective, Recontres d'Arles, France, Summer, 2012
2011
The Extra/Ordinary World of Pentti Sammallahti, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Retrospective at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Pentti Sammallahti: Images rares ou recentes, Box Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Pentti Sammallahti, Candace Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Northern Light, Candace Dwan/ Nailya Alexander Galleries, New York, New York
2005
Pentti Sammallahti, personal exhibition at Arles International Photography Festival, France
2004
Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation's opening exhibition in Paris, for which Cartier-Bresson chooses 100 of
his favorite photographers
1998
Pennti Sammallahti, Houston FotoFest, Houston, TX
1996
Solo exhibition at Paris' Mois de la Photographie, leading to regular exhibitions at international
photography events in Europe, Asia, America and Africa
1979
First portfolio Cathleen Ní Houlihan, a travelling exhibition, Helsinki, Finland
1977
First solo exhibition abroad at the Gotland artists' house in Visby. Followed by solo exhibitions in twenty
countries.
1976
Uusia sarjoja exhibition at the Finnish Museum of Photography.
1974
Mullasta taivaalle exhibition at the Finnish Museum of Photography.
1971
First solo exhibition Kaupunki on painajainen.
AWARDS
2001 He was awarded the title of Honorary Doctorate in Art by the University of Art and Design.
1991 He was awarded the Finnish State's 15-year artist's grant.1980 Finnish Critics' Association's Kritiikin
kannukset award
1975 He received his first State Art Award for Photographic Art (he was also awarded in 1979, 1992,
2009).
1968 He received First Prize in a cultural meet between Sweden and Finland at the Anderson Art
Museum in Helsinki
1966 He received a prize in the “Junge Fotografen zeigen Europa” competition
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