“Unlike any art form - think playing the piano or painting, acting or poetry - photography allows entry to mature works of art within the first months or years one begins. André Kertész’s image of a swimmer elongated underwater graces the cover of a retrospective monograph of sixty years of work. It was made in the second year of his career. Here, the Raft of Medusa comes to mind, that canvas by Géricault in 1818 when the young painter was but 27. As a professor now aged 72, I can’t help thinking I am in the presence of something entirely brand new created by someone entirely new to the genre, already demonstrating the requisite mastery to assure a place somewhere in that genre’s continuum one day. Well, it happens. In photography.” - Arno Minkkinen, Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Docent at Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland.