Per Olov Jansson (22 April 1920 – 7 February 2019) was a Finnish photographer.''Valolla piirtäjä - 60 vuotta valokuvaajana''. 2006.

Early life

He is the son of artists

Viktor Jansson Viktor Bernhard "Faffan" Jansson (1 March 1886 in Helsinki – 22 June 1958 in Helsinki) was a Finnish sculptor belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland. Early life Jansson was born in Helsinki in 1886 to Julius Viktor Jansson a ...

and Swedish-born

Signe Hammarsten-Jansson Signe "Ham" Hammarsten-Jansson (née Hammarsten, 1 June 1882 Hannäs, – 6 July 1970) was a Swedish-Finnish graphic artist who designed, among other things, around 220 Finnish postage stamps during the course of three decades.''Suomen postimerkk ...

, and the brother of writer

Tove Jansson Tove Marika Jansson (; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and ...

and cartoonist Lars Jansson. His photography has appeared in books by Tove Jansson, including ''

Skurken i Muminhuset ''Skurken i Muminhuset'', or ''Villain in the Moominhouse'', is a picture book from 1980 by the Finnish author Tove Jansson. The final Moomin story written by Jansson, the story revolves around a mysterious nocturnal visitor to the Moominhouse, w ...

'' (1980) and ''Anteckningar från en ö'' (1993), and Tove's 1971 novel, ''Lyssnerskan'' is dedicated to him. He is also responsible for a great number of photos of his sister. Jansson's photographs have been described as emphasizing the act of artistic creation and his technique has been noted to rely heavily on perspective and the relationship between light, dark, and medium contrast.Solberg, Silje E.
Om forholdet mellom ord og bilde i Tove Janssons novelle 'Svart-vitt. Hommage à Edward Gorey'
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University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...

. Pg. 6. 2010. During the 1950s, he formed a company called Aerofoto with his brother Lars. Despite his long photographic career, Jansson's first photo exhibition only occurred in 2000 to coincide with his 80th birthday.

References

1920 births 2019 deaths Finnish photographers Moomins Per Olov Swedish-speaking Finns Finnish people of Swedish descent Finnish military personnel of World War II {{finland-photographer-stub