Minkkinen has created an incredible body of self portraits that blend/transform him into becoming part of the natural landscape.
Many of these photographs verge on the surreal. His compositions are a never ending juxtaposition of body parts and the landscape, a hand or a foot cutting the sky, the ground, the water.
In the photos he transforms to part of nature. A human being as part of the landscape. Minkkkinen says:
“Many of my photographs are difficult to make. Some can even be dangerous. Some of my pictures might look simple but in reality they can test the limits of what a human body is capable of or willing to risk. So I title them self-portraits so the viewer knows who is in the pictures and who took them.”
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