Sanna Kannisto - URTICACEAE: Urera rzedowskii 2010

Inkjet print
Image: 31 x 38 cm (paper: 33 x 48 cm)
Edition of 25
Signed and numbered on a label

About the work
Working alongside biologists in the rainforest of Brazil, Costa Rica, Peru and French Guiana Kannisto captures the wondrous species of the tropics. Using scientific methods and tools, such as a white backdrop, the photographer questions the almost futile attempts of science to document and catalogue the chaos of nature. She carefully directs and construct a scene where nature is barely visible. Her works suggest beauty and the inadequate attempts of science and photography to record the chaos of the rainforest.

About the photographer
Sanna Kannisto (born 1974, in Hämeenlinna, Finland) studied photography at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. She lives in Helsinki. 
Her works has been exhibited at venues in more than thirty countries around the world, including Aperture Gallery New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, Busan Museum of Art South Korea, Fotomuseum Wintherthur Switzerland, Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel Germany, Centro de la Imagen Lima Peru and the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
Sanna Kannisto published two monographs Fieldwork, Aperture 2011 and Observing Eye, Hatje Canzt 2020.

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