PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI

"I think I enjoy the life most in remote districts photographing the life and the environment that are vanishing. The transience of life often increases the importance and value of a photo – the world changes but the image remains. I rarely sigh for the days gone but as a photographer, I might be slightly nostalgic. A great modern Finnish composer, Aarre Merikanto, has once said that all art is nostalgia."