Esko Männikkö (b. 1959, Finland) documents the lives of those who inhabit the periphery. Initially a hunter, his passion developed from this to shooting photographs in the early 1980s.
Männikkö became widely known for The Female Pike, which featured bachelors living isolated lives in the Finnish countryside. In this series, as well as his work Mexas (1999), produced on the border between Mexico and Texas, each photograph is instilled with the peculiarities and unique characteristics of the individuals.
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