{"product_id":"16185-ville-lenkkeri","title":"Ville Lenkkeri","description":"\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eVille Lenkkeri (*1972 in Oulu, Finland) is one of the graduates of the famous Helsinki School, whose brilliant works have drawn worldwide attention to Finland’s contemporary photography scene. Hatje Cantz published Lenkkeri’s debut book, \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eReality in the Making,\u003c\/I\u003e in 2006, and the reception was enthusiastic: “If the strength of Finnish photography is in gathering together irony, skillful craftsmanship, humor, and reflection on media, then it has found one of its most talented representatives in Ville Lenkkeri,” wrote \u003cI\u003ePHOTO International.\u003c\/I\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic\"\u003e\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic\"\u003eFor his new book, Lenkkeri made several visits to two Russian towns on Spitzbergen. \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eTo him, a now-deserted mining settlement appeared “not as a depressing . . . scar on the Arctic landscape, but as a formerly just and happy commonwealth . . . where competitive hierarchies had been abolished in favor of equality.” The journey became a “personal quest for alternative ways of living,” the place itself “a utopia in many respects, not least for having failed to exist” (Ville Lenkkeri).\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eExhibition schedule: Kulturhuset, S\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"st1\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003etockholm, F\u003c\/st1:city\u003eebruary 14–May 17, 2009 · Finsk-norsk kulturinstitutt, Oslo, May 28–August 16, 2009 · \u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003eSynart\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e \u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003eArt\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e \u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003eGallery\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e, \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eFrankfurt\/Main\u003c\/st1:place\u003e, September 2009 · And further venues\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49767662190856,"sku":"9783775723992","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775723992_c2e49460-4cb7-43b2-8f2c-318d2f65144a.jpg?v=1744145334","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16185-ville-lenkkeri","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}