DTK - Kunstfagskolen i Bærum

From here and from afar
Artist statement

What I have learned from doing, teaching and study of photography: Photography is alive and well, contrary to image overload on social media
and the idea that everyone is a photographer today.
The most important thing about a photograph is its significance and its
meaning.
Good camera work will have respect for craft and for tradition.
Your best work is done as a project. Think of your art work as a living thing that feeds on conscious awareness
to flourish and to thrive.
Meditate on beauty knowing that awareness lives in the subconscious mind.



Carll Goodpasture utstillinger Av Natur

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Rain Shadow

Camera work of a rain producing weather system:
Incoming Pacific Ocean clouds on the windward side of the San Gabriel Mountains that block the passage of rain causing a “rainshadow” of dryness leeside forming desert landforms on the leeside.

A young photographers’ landscape portfolio with an intent to visualize California’s winter storm mountain and dessert watering system. Photographed in 1979, my first view camera experience - Coincidentally documenting life and land-form in the San Gabriel Wilderess ravaged by the Bobcat fire, September/Octoer, 2020.

LATimes article about the Bobcat wild fire

Heartfelt thanks to the fighters and workers who will know better than I the stark beauty and the truth of “what remains” - all a camera can do with the best of intention.