About Me

I am a Finnish photographer. Born in Helsinki to my French mother and Hungarian father. I attended French, Swedish and Finnish schools.

Received my photography education in London at The London College of Printing but most of all through the years by trial and error. .

My professional life I have spent in the picture agency industry. I am married, have three children and five grand children. I live in Helsinki, Finland.

Philip László, Finnish photographer based in Helsinki, holding a camera. Creator of the Beauty of Recycling fine art photography series shot across landfills since 2008.

Exhibitions

  • A Statement, a Philip László photo exhibition at Laterna Magica, Helsinki, Finland, 5 February to 27 February 2010. Based on the first of three Kuusakoski coffee table books.
  • Beauty of Recycling — The Forgotten by Philip László at Laterna Magica, Helsinki, Finland, 9 May to 26 May 2012. Subtitled in Finnish, English, and Swedish.
  • Beauty of Recycling — Tribute to the Forgotten by Philip László at Vyborg Castle, Russia, 5 July to 31 August 2014. The historic venue where Kuusakoski Oy was founded a century earlier.
  • Abstracted Beauty, a joint exhibition by Philip László and Algar Dole at River Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1 to 30 April 2015. Philip László's US gallery exhibition.
Poster for Beauty of Recycling exhibition

In 2022, I was invited to present the inaugural exhibition at the newly established Härkönen Art House in the village of Puumala, Finland, in the Lake Saimaa region. The building, constructed in 1789, originally served as the home of the Härkönen family. The exhibition was on view for five weeks during the summer of 2022.

National & International Exhibitions

My first exhibition, A STATEMENT, was held in 2010 in Helsinki, my hometown. The images addressed the harsh realities of working life during the height of the global recession, offering a direct and uncompromising reflection of the time.

My second exhibition, BEAUTY OF RECYCLING, also took place in Helsinki in 2012. It explored themes of aging and questioned how society defines the value and relevance of a person entering middle age.

In 2013, I was invited to showcase my work at Vyborg Castle. The exhibition was held in the summer of 2014. The city of Vyborg was once a thriving Finnish cultural center in Karelia before being lost to the Soviet Union in 1944, adding historical depth to the exhibition context.

By invitation, I exhibited in the United States in 2015 at the prestigious River Gallery in Chattanooga art district. The exhibition received local television coverage, including interviews broadcast on NBC’s Chattanooga affiliate

Installation view of Philip László's Beauty of Recycling exhibition at River Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Finnish photographer's first major US gallery presentation, with thirty works printed on acrylic.

Beauty of Recycling exhibit in River Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee. 30 images were displayed on Acrylic.