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At our summer house, hidden from reality, in this place that is so cosy and so familiar to us, my mother turns to me. “We are happy, aren’t we?” she asks. “Yes, we are,” comes my response, every time. But am I telling the truth? Are we really happy?

Limbo, the latest series of photographic images created by Sami Parkkinen, is an explora-tion of the way humans perceive happiness. To be in limbo is to find yourself in a liminal state, in a place in-between. We’re in limbo when we’re faced with a choice, grappling with indecision, anxious about our future.

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