Arno Rafael Minkkinen Livres

Now spanning five decades of non-stop continuity, Finnish-American photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s (b.1945) unmanipulated self-portraits aim to create a balance between the naked human form and the natural and urban worlds wherein we exist. Whether he is working along lakeshores or beaches, in cities or forests, from majestic mountaintops or buried in the snow, Minkkinen reminds us that we are foremost beings without clothes. Photographed in more than 30 countries, the results can be surreal, spiritual, and transformative, often tinged with a profound sense of humor. Published and exhibited worldwide, his work is in the collections of New York’s MoMA, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, among many others.

The theme of Margaret M De Langes second book published by Trolley is one of loneliness. It is a personal documentary, which follows people close to her as well as some that she has met only briefly, and the solitude they encounter. As she Being lonely is not the same as being alone. The loneliness we experience when surrounded by people is the loneliness we try our hardest to hide. We all have aspects to ourselves that we try not to display. Aspects which are personal and vulnerable. On an unconscious level, I think I look for these sides to myself in the people around me. Those I m close to, but also strangers I only have fleeting encounters with. It is when I see myself that I take my photographs. These people become my mirrors; my way of showing those parts of me I m trying to keep hidden. My insecurities, dreams and longings. My happiness and sorrows, victories and downfalls. My loneliness.