The research of Finnish-American photographer Arno Minkkinen focused on the landscape marked by anthropogenic presence, in particular the relationship between the human presence and natural elements, which was investigated by Minkkinen by adding elements of surrealist irony, where the human body is the subject and object of perception, in analogy to what philosopher Maurice Merleau Ponty expressed. Working specifically on the self-portrait, Arno on the Arno (2016) takes on the features of a personal challenge: Arno versus Arno, as he himself likes to say, underlining his homonymy with the river. A “game of chess that you win and lose at the same time, whose final result can only be known ex post”.