Sobre el Artista

About me: I was born in California in 1962 and moved to Norway at the age of 7. I now live and work in Oslo. Photography is my passion and has always been a big part of me. Just took me awhile to expose it. I am constantly in search for the image to reveal itself to me. While always having a camera in hand I like to capture my surroundings as they are presented to me. Most likely I will find the image indirectly by a reflection and turn it into my personal view. Blending layers of the real world into a dreamlike vision. I never preimagine them and I tend to use people who are in my nearest present (whether they know it or not), myself or my family members as models. Everything you see is everything I saw in the camera. I have studied under master photographers Morten Krogvold, Michael Ackerman, Arno Rafael Minkinnen, Joyce Tenneson and recently Jeff Cowen. Different artists and artforms inpsire me and I am autodidact. Galleri Ramfjord (www.galleriramfjord.no) currently has some of my work on commission. At Galleri Ramfjord I have been one of 15 chosen artists (of 450 entrants) in their yearly stipend compentition, with new juries every year, for the last 5 years. This includes a show of the finalists. In 2012 the show was in New York.