Pentti Sammallahti

Italian Edition. Pentti Sammallahti's work is a kind of journey, personal and dreamlike, into land and space. Traveled at human height, or even from a bird's eye view, the territory to be explored appears white, rarefied, sometimes mysterious, and often as white as snow; a land curiously populated with domesticated animals that, however, tread their path in the solitude of an unspecified place. The space we must inhabit, or at least know, is thus a boundless place, which Pentti Sammallahti's panoramic-format photographs enclose in a literal continuity, in search of an elsewhere that is always present and always to be reached. A Finn from Helsinki, Pentti Sammallahti is a man from the North. If he cannot stand the sun or too much heat, he is nevertheless in perfect tune with nature, which he contemplates with the intense gaze of an enchanted predator. L'opera di Pentti Sammallahti e una sorta di viaggio, personale e onirico, nella terra e nello spazio. Percorso ad altezza d'uomo, o