Wayne Gudmundson
Wayne Gudmundson’s work has been discussed and written about by many of photography’s most notable and articulate practitioners, including: Frank Gohlke, Robert Adams, and Ben Lifson. Robert Adams has affirmed that Gudmundson’s “landscapes of North Dakota document a place most people dismiss as uninteresting, but his pictures prove us wrong as they record there a grandeur that we thought had been entirely lost with the passing of frontier America. They are the best current, composite picture of their subject of which I know.”
A native to the landscape which he explores, Gudmundson’s photographs reflect an ongoing survey of the Midwest region that express the sense of a particular place and of a particular vision. They depict sublime landscapes, that indicate both place and the people who reside with it.
At Tusen Takk
Gudmundson was invited by ALLEES-AVENUES/allees d’avenir to make photographs in Trampot, France focusing on tree-lined avenues in that region. The images were taken in June 2024 and, over the course of the summer, he edited that work down. From this collection, he worked with Founder Geoffrey Peckham to produce a digital black-and-white portfolio of roughly 20 images. He printed three portfolios – one for the Tusen Takk Foundation, one for the artist, and the other will be donated to the French organization for exhibition in November 2024.
Secondly, Gudmundson made photographs in and around Tusen Takk. He says, “I’ve wandered about this refreshing landscape with the soothing Tolkien quote in mind, ‘Not all who wander are lost.’”
