Views on Château Lafite Rothschild - 2015
Pentti Sammallahti
Pentti Sammallahti, a Finnish photographer, was born in 1950 in Helsinki into a family of craftsmen. He is the grandson of the Swedish-born photographer Hildur Larsson.
In 1991, the granting of an art education scholarship allowed him to devote himself to his work and to leave teaching. The 1990s marked a turning point in his career, as Pentti Sammallahti starts travelling and showing his work around the world. In 1996, he organised his first exhibition in France at the Finnish Institute.
“His work is both striking and universal. Inviting him to Château Lafite Rothschild was an obvious choice for Baron Eric de Rothschild. At Lafite, the photographer was able to blend light and darkness and to freeze the beauty and spirit of the place.”
In addition to his photo reports, Pentti Sammallahti also pays special attention to photography as a “concrete object” and has published more than forty books or portfolios classified as ‘Opus.’
