A Finnish American photographer, writer, and educator, Arno Rafael Minkkinen developed a profound love for photography as an advertising copywriter. "What happens inside your mind can happen inside a camera" (a line he wrote for Minolta cameras) became his artistic credo as a graduate student at Rhode Island School of Design studying with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Forty years later, his self-portraits continue to be made simply using single-negative exposures with no manipulation in the camera or the darkroom.