Willas Gallery, in Oslo, Norway, exhibits Arno Rafael Minkkinen, who for over 45 years has focused his work on nude self-portrait as a primary vehicle for expressing the human condition through images made in natural and urban landscapes. His photographs are based on the reality before the lens—photography at its purest—setting aperture and squeezing a shutter bulb or other self-timer device to fire the camera. Using himself as subject—so no one else comes in harm’s way—he captures the beauty of being part of something bigger and more permanent than one’s own naked self. Minkkinen was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1945 and immigrated to the United States in 1951. A Wagner College graduate, he began taking self-portraits in 1970 while working as an advertising copywriter on Madison Avenue, before studying with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at Rhode Island School of Design.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Floating in the Air
March 16 to May 5, 2017
Willas Gallery
Tordenskiolds gate 7
0160 Oslo
Norway
