Markus Henttonen

Markus Henttonen (b. 1976) is a Finnish artist photographer currently living and working in Berlin. He studied photography in Turku Arts Academy in Finland from where he graduated 2002. In his works he has photographed the relationship between people and the physical and emotional environment; the anonymous metropolis in the series Night Time Stories and Wall and the crowded holiday beaches in one his very first works To be on View. In his recent projects Henttonen has shifted deeper into emotions and narratives, with the eerie and dark Silent Night and the newest Twisted Tales –Road to Hope a journey through landscape, time, and emotions. His photographs lay somewhere between the real and imaginary, they are at the same time precise and beautifully poetic. And there is always this tiny hint of melancholy underneath.

Henttonen´s work has been exhibited extensively in solo- and group exhibitions as well as International Art Fairs, Photo Biennials and -Festivals in Finland and many other countries; Germany, France, UK, Spain, Sweden, Russia, Poland, China, Italy, Monaco, Denmark, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. His recent exhibitions include e.g. Helsinki Kunsthalle and Lahti Art Museum (2014), Stockholm Centre for Photograp...