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Pentti Sammallahti
彭蒂·萨马拉赫蒂
Facts
- Life
- born 18 February 1950
- Nationality
- Finnish
Style, as we read it
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Small, exquisitely printed black-and-white pictures in which a dog, a bird or a distant figure gives scale to a wide northern landscape. Animals appear as fellow travellers, never as specimens.
- Colour
- Black and white.
- Composition
- Wide or panoramic, horizon low, one creature small in the frame.
- Light
- Northern winter light, snow glare, dusk.
- Tone
- Luminous greys, soft blacks, bright snow held with detail.
- Texture
- Fine grain, gentle sharpness.
- Mood
- Gentle, humorous, solitary.
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