Pentti Sammallahti

Pentti Sammallahti is a highly acclaimed ICON figure, a HERO at most in his homeland Finland. He was awarded a 15 year grant from the Finnish government, where he still works as a Photographer and contributes his proceeds to the government.
Aside from his native Finland, he has traveled in Russia, Ireland, Hungary, China, Japan, Nepal and Britain, where his magnificent eye for documenting relationships of people or animals, or any life form and their environment, was fully at work. His black & white photographs are very captivating, joyful, poignant, whimsical, and sometimes abstract.
Sammallahti’s body of work has been widely exhibited in his own country and the rest of Scandinavia. In the late 1990’s, he has conquered France, Britain and the United States. His oeuvre is currently residing in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, and in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as various galleries nationwide.