Gullichsen often depicts the challenges of the human mind through nature. The naked human body in the middle of the forest looks natural and strange: soft skin against hard rock. He is interested in the contradiction between man and nature, Gullichsen tries to find a perfect harmony between himself and the raw forest environment. The Finnish archipelago is a never-ending source of inspiration for him, and most of his work he created in the Porvoo archipelago.
Svante Gullichsen (b.1994) is a photographer living and working in Helsinki, Finland. He is an auto-didact artist. His works have been showcased in several group exhibitions, including at the Amos Anderson Art Museum in Helsinki and the Jyväskylä Art Museum, and at the Helsinki Photo Festival, he won the Best Photo Award 2019. His first solo exhibition he held at the Photography Centre Nykyaika in Tampere in 2021. His follow up second solo exhibition “Fearless” curated by Danish Rafael Rybczynski was on display at Helsinki Photo Festival's Nordic Village 2021 in the Art park at Hanaholmen Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre. All images for this exhibition were new creations made during the winter season of 2020 in Lapland to the spring period of 2021 on the Jurmo Island and Porvoo.
In 2022, he was selected to exhibit in Dresden at the Hellerau – European Centre for the Arts. He won the Hellerau portraits competition and the residency award. Svante’s third solo exhibition “Behind My Back” was exhibited at Fotografiska Tallin. Also in 2024, his works were showcased at Galleria Herder in Hague, London Photo Fair and Unseen Amsterdam. His latest solo exhibition Reversals can be seen at Institut finlandais in Paris from 17 January to 5 april 2025.