
With subjects rooted in traditional landscape painting, Santeri Tuori approaches nature similarly to 19th century Impressionists, using photography as a medium to capture natural elements such as forests, skies, water lilies, and wind. By observing nature’s changes over seasons and years, Tuori encapsulates the passage of time in his photographs by layering one image upon another to create imaginary landscapes. He interweaves black-and-white and color images, enhancing certain areas while erasing others, lending the final works a graphic quality, akin to colored pencil drawings. Blurring the line between painting and photography, he portrays nature’s infinite power of transformation, while also imbuing his works with a sense of timelessness.
Santeri Tuori (*1970 in Espoo, Finland) lives and works in Helsinki. In addition to earning a Master of Law degree in 1999, he obtained a Master of Arts degree in photography from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2003. Since 1997, he has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions at numerous institutions, including MoMA (New York), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Denver Art Museum, Kunsthalle St. Annen (Lübeck, DE), École des Beaux-Arts (Paris), Stenersen Museum (Oslo), Location One (New York), Whitebox (New York), Kulturhuset (Stockholm), and Serlachius Museum Gösta (Mänttä, FI). His works are also part of major collections, such as the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, the Finnish Museum of Photography, the FRAC Haute-Normandie, the Malmø Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, as well as numerous private collections worldwide.