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Pentti Sammallahti was born in in Helsinki, Finland. Growing up, he was surrounded by the works of his grandmother, Hildur Larsson , a Swedish-born photographer, who worked for the Helsinki newspaper Kaiku in the early s.

Born in Helsinki, Finland, Pentti

Pentti joined the Helsinki Camera Club in His first solo exhibition was in As a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography, his work has a supernatural sense of a moment in time with the sensitivity and beauty of the world displayed through its animalistic existence. His particular use of dogs, which reflects the human existential experience, shows the shared nature of the earth with gentle humor and a fleeting attitude.

Sammallahti describes himself as a wanderer who likes the nature of the great north, the silence, the cold, and the sea. He likes the people and the animals of far-off places and he records the relationships between them and their environment. As a master craftsman, he meticulously tones his prints, which come in various formats, from 4 by 5 inches in image size to panoramas of 6 by 14 inches.

In for his retrospective exhibition in Helsinki, he created large format pigment prints, about 9 by 21 inches and 15 by 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. From to Sammallahti taught at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, retiring when he received a year grant from the Finnish government, an unusually long endowment, which is no longer awarded.

Both as a photographer and a teacher, he has had an enormous influence on a whole generation of documentary photographers in Scandinavia. Sammallahti had a solo exhibition at Paris' Mois de la Photographie in and another in at Houston Fotofest, Texas. In , the famous French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson ranked Sammallahti among his favorite photographers for his Foundation's inaugural exhibition in Paris.

The French Photo Poche book series published his book edited by Robert Delpire in , and the same year, Sammallahti had a personal exhibition at the International Photography Festival in Arles.