Janne Lehtinen has, throughout his entire career, exercised an extremely personal approach in reflecting upon his life and the trials and tribulations of how he has evolved into the person he is today. In his Phantom series, we find him as a solitary figure performing for the camera, exemplifying an array of emotions that reconfigure the immediate moment into an act of disappearing. His art is in how he finds the balance within himself to become both the actor, director and audience. These photographs appear as disconnected reflections of his inner self. Lehtinen transforms from the antagonist into the victim and then back again, using repetitive variations from the same motif to accentuate his intention. His photographs turn the mundane into moments of poetic wonder where we don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Most importantly, Lehtinen is a storyteller. His art is a mixture of sculpture and performance, that is then captured using photography, with works being realized either in the studio or in natural surroundings with no audience. It becomes a dance where the head follows the heart, with photographs representing the moment the two converge. His subject matter varies from childhood memories to tracing the working patterns of his father as he did in his second book, The Descendants. Yet the common denominator found in all his work is the way in which he explores the notion of the family to interpret the ordinary, creating something entirely extraordinary.