Pentti Sammallahti, born in 1950 in Finland, holds a prominent position in contemporary Finnish photography. He embarked on his photographic journey at the age of 11, and by 1971, he had began travelling and exhibiting globally. Sammallahti's journeys took him across Europe, Scandinavia, Siberia, the Far East, and Africa. In his photographs, Sammallahti captures a mystical essence of moments frozen in time, portraying the world's delicate beauty in its primal, animalistic state. As an intrepid explorer, Sammallahti documents the intricate connections he encounters between people and animals in the distant locales he explores. He is also a fervent seeker of the mechanical printing method, which led to his innovative printing techniques that render photographic prints as exquisite as the images themselves.

"I wait for photographs like a pointer dog. It is a question of luck and circumstance. I prefer winter, the worse the weather, the better the photograph will be." - Pentti Sammallahti

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