Ten Minutes Past Midnight

Arno Rafael Minkkinen was born in Helsinki, Finland, in June 1945. Minkkinen has received numerous awards, including two Polaroid Studio Grants in 1984 and 1987, and a New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Grant in 1991. Minkkinen has been making nude self-portrait photographs since 1971, usually without using assistants and only making single negatives. “What you see happening in the frame of my image happened inside the viewfinder of my camera,” he says

Arno Ratel Minkkinen Akseli Gallen-Kallelan vieraana"and "ten minutes past midnight," two exhibits and a joint catalog, group four bodies of work: the initial portraits and nudes of his wife, Sandra, taken in the 1970s, the self-portraits made with his son, Daniel, from his birth to the present day, a selection of new works from the American West, and rarely seen self-portraits where the inspirations of the Finnish artists Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Hugo Simberg are present. The pictures span twenty-seven years of life and creation, from domestic scenes to mythic visions.