Photographer Pentti Sammallahti´s exhibition in Athens
Athens House of Photography opened a new gallery and organized a photo exhibition of Pentti Sammallahti,a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography.
Pentti Sammallahti started taking photographs at age 11, inspired by his grandmother Hildur Larsson, a Swedish-born newspaper photographer. His black-and-white images have a supernatural stillness, showing nature eroded by civilization, but without setting the players against one another and without judgment. As such, animals frequently appear in his work, especially dogs.
Sammallahti is recognized as a master craftsman both in terms of the photographic print and also in mechanical printing methods—he has been a major influence on published photographic art. He has had an enormous influence on a generation of photographers in Scandinavia and, since 1979, has published thirteen books and portfolios and received innumerable awards. In 2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson ranked him among his 100 favorite photographers for the inaugural exhibition of his Foundation in Paris.
The Athens House of Photography, with the opportunity of the opening of its new gallery/bookstore in Kifisia, is organizing a fantastic competition in which the winner gets a signed Pentti Sammallahti silver gelatin print, printed by the Finnish artist himself, worth 600 euros. More information on Photobookstore.(Link to another website.) (Opens New Window)
Duration: 30.10.-15.11.
Gallery opening hours:
Moday-Wednesday-Saturday 10 am. till 3 pm.
Tuesday-Thursday-Friday at 10 am till 3 pm. and 5.30 pm till 8 pm.
More information
Athens House of Photography (Link to another website.) (Opens New Window)