Dennis Lehtonen has dedicated his life to photographing auras.
One night in 2018, I was viewing the international space station through a telescope in the observatory of Helsinki. Suddenly, I looked into the opposite direction and there, for the first time ever, I would see the northern lights dancing over the city below. The experience was otherworldly and I wanted to see them again and again.
To do so, for nearly five years, I have lived in the small remote corner of the Finnish Lapland, above the artic circle. Since 2021, I have lived in a total of three different locations in Finnish Lapland in order: Salla, Sodankylä and Kilpisjärvi. I have also worked in a total of seven different Greenland-based fish factories all in different, mostly small and remote, locations, despite hating fish.