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Although I began photography many years ago, my serious pursuit of the landscape began in 2000. My interest in the landscape stems from my unabashed love of the world’s wild and natural places and my desire to preserve them.
Being in the wild and photographing helps me find peace and solitude and is my spiritual time. Growing up around the Great Lakes I’ve always been attracted to water and big skies. I now live within a few hours of the greatest of the lakes, Lake Superior, which is a constant inspiration.
Like many photographers of the natural world, I photograph at the boundaries of the day. It’s those times of day when the light and atmospheric conditions are changing and the scene becomes transcendent. Literal and metaphorical “boundaries” are the basis for much of my work, I’m drawn to the boundaries of space, time and being.
I consider myself a printer, in addition to a photographer. Although I embrace new digital technologies my heart is with traditional 100+ year old handmade wet processes such as Platinum, Palladium and Gum Dichromate. The broad and rich tonal range of the platinum process creates a unique beauty. Platinum prints are renowned for their luminous mid-tone grays, as well as their rich shadows and delicate whites. The platinum metals (platinum and palladium) are very stable, and platinum prints are perhaps the most archival process in photography. Additional information can be found on my Prints page.
Awards
- 2010
- Minnesota State Arts Board Grant Recipient.
- 2008
- Artist in Residence Feburary 2009, Sirius Art’s Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Selected Solo Exhibits
- 2010
- Fragments of Ireland, Sirius Art Centre, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland, June 3rd – July 4th 2010.
- 2009
- Fragments of Eire, Photographs from Ireland. November 7th – December 31st, ICEBOX Gallery
- 2007
- Boundaries Light and Land, Black and White Photographs by David J. Eisenlord, ICEBOX Gallery
Collections
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
- Medtronic, Inc
- Private Collections
Selected Group Exhibits
- 2010
- Landscape, unfeigned or illusory, Minneapolis Photo Center, Juror Todd Brandow.
- 2009
- Highway 12 Show, ICEBOX Gallery, Minneapolis MN
- 2008
- Landscape Other, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco CA
- 20-20 Vision, ICEBOX 20th Anniversary Show, ICEBOX Gallery, Minneapolis MN.
- 2007
- The Northern Landscape, Hopkins Center For the Arts, Hopkins MN
- 2004
- New Photography, A juried large scale photo exhibit, ICEBOX Gallery.
Commissions
Teaching
- 2009
- Digital Negatives and Gum over Platinum with Kerik Kouklis, Photostock 2009.
- 2008
- Platinum Printing, Crawford School of Art and Design, Cork City, Ireland
- Platinum Printing, Ansel Adams Yosemite Workshops, assisting Kerik Kouklis
- Platinum Printing, Photographers Formulary Workshops, assisting Kerik Kouklis