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’s plan for the residency is two-fold:

1. He has been invited by ALLEES-AVENUES/allees d/avenir to make photographs in Trampot, France focusing on tree-lined avenues in that region.  He will take the images in early June 2024.  Over the course of the summer, he will edit that work down to roughly 45-50 images.  From this collection, he will work with Founder Geoffrey Peckham to produce a digital black and white portfolio of roughly 20 images. He plans to print 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.

2. His second goal is to make photographs in and around Tusen Takk.

Lower Rice Lake, Minnesota

North of Georgetown, Minnesota

North of McClusky, North Dakota

North of Tuttle, North Dakota

Wheelock, North Dakota

Made with a 4x5 view camera, developed, and archivally printed on 16x20” Ilford paper.