OK, I should be posting more often – and probably getting involved with Twitter and Facebook. Until I do, here’s an update on a few recent happenings:

Norwegian friends (and luminaries from the Oslo photo community!) joined my friend PÃ¥l and I for the opening of our “Vestiges of Industry” exhibition at Fotografiens Hus in Oslo (above). Special thanks to Morten Løberg, Carll Goodpasture, Arne Knudsen, and everyone else who helped us create the exhibition and celebrate the work.)

A really great group of students (and our friends Helge and Tom at StudioTechnika/Farvelabben) made the Oslo Digital Workshop a terrific experience.

Of course every trip to Norway is supplemented with a healthy dose of socializing ; ) My sincerest thanks to Tarand and Morten Krogvold for an amazing dinner at Brasserie France!

The next few day include a road trip in Norway to shoot new industrial images, followed by a brief stopover and shooting adventure in ICELAND with the crew from Mo i Rana! More soon…

This was the 9th time I’ve visited Norway in the last five years! My dear friend PÃ¥l Otnes and I had a great time teaching a sold out workshop at StudioTechnika / Farvelabben in Oslo – to an exceptionally talented and nice group.

Afterwards, PÃ¥l and I took a road trip to shoot a couple of abandoned industrial sites for our upcoming “Vestiges of Industry” exhibition at Fotografiens Hus in May 2009. I’m looking forward to posting more pictures, from both the workshop and the road trip, very soon.

I must confess, leading workshops may be the best excuse in the world to travel, make new photographs – and new friends. I am so grateful to realize how many incredible people come to mind as I think about the past few months. Thank you all for your generosity – and thank you ICP & MMW.

The two classes I taught in June at the Maine Media Workshops were a delight, and Eleanor and Herbert Peters at the Thomaston Café very kindly extended the June exhibition of my landscape photographs an extra month, into August. Thank you to everyone who made it (and almost made it) to the opening in June!

New York in summer is also pretty great. The workshops at ICP were filled with amazing people! Returning to Maine to teach a third workshop in September was absolutely icing on the cake. Happy Solstice everyone!

Norway in May was amazing, as usual. Great workshop, fantastic roadtrip to shoot industry in Sweden, and being in Oslo for the National Day on the 17th was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The exhibition of my landscape photographs at Fotografiens Hus Gallery in downtown Oslo was a success, and there’s talk of another in 2008.

I’m happy to report that my Exhibition and the Workshop PÃ¥l Otnes and I are presenting in Oslo are already receiving favorable attention from the photography press in Norway. Take a look at fotografi.no, the website for Norway’s best photo magazine.

“Seeing Is Believing,” a gallery exhibition of my black-and-white landscape photographs, opens on May 4th at Fotografiens Hus in downtown Oslo. There’s a reception party from 6-9pm if you’re in the neighborhood.

The prints that make up this exhibition feature images made in Norway (happily, I’ve been visiting Norway often since 2003 to teach and to photograph), as well as the US, Canada, Western Europe, and Japan. In addition to the exhibition PÃ¥l Otnes and I will be teaching a special Digital Workshop, and we may even take a road trip into Sweden to photograph abandoned industrial sites. In fact, it looks like I’ll be spending most of the month May in Norway – including May 17th, which is the Norwegian National Day; I hear it’s quite a party!

The Susan Spiritus Gallery, which represents my work on the West Coast, has a whole new website – with my work in the slide show here.

Camilla Longin’s London Gallery, The Art Movement, will be featuring my black-and-white landscape photographs at Photo London. Photo London is like New York’s AIPAD show – approximately 50 world-class photo galleries showcase collectible photographs which are for sale.

The dates are Wednesday 17 May – Sunday 21 May 2006 at the the Royal Academy of Arts’ Burlington Gardens. I will be at the exhibition Wednesday thru Saturday, and I would love to see you there (booth #15). Please come by, or ask your friends in London to stop by and introduce themselves.