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Northward Bound
I haven’t posted in a while. Too busy and not much to share with the wider world. All that is about to change. I’m hectically packing (and repacking) my gear for my next field trip. To the Arctic...
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New York – Ai Weiwei at Brooklyn Art Museum
I had a fruitful and engaging few days in New York on my way to Oslo. There is always so much to see and do in this great city. It was my first American city way back in the winter of … Continue...
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New York – Kara E. Walker’s marvelous sugar baby
I guess I will have to rave about Kara Walker’s works at the Domino Sugar factory in Brooklyn – everyone else has. And justifiably so! It’s very impressive, a pleasure to experience and, perhaps most...
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New York – Tara Donovan and Hiroshi Sugimoto
Continuing to explore the New York galleries, I headed to Chelsea with my old Icelandic comrade and superb photographer Mark Hartman. By far the best work was at Pace Gallery. Two outstanding...
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Isbjørn – In search of the ice bear.
I have returned to civilization after my trek to the far north and I have many tales to tell. Naturally, my true reason to head to the Arctic was to hunt Polar Bears. As I drew closer and closer to the...
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Oslo – In search of Roald Amundsen – Part 1 – the Viking ships
I was on the hunt for Polar Bears while I was up North, I was also on the trail of Roald Amundsen. As you might recall from high school geography or history classes, Amundsen was the first man to reach...
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Oslo – In search of Roald Amundsen – Part 2 – the ‘Fram’
The next stop on my museum tour and in my hunt for Roald Amundsen was the Fram Museum. Set right on the water on the outskirts of Oslo, the museum was built around the wonderful vessel Fram. As...
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Oslo – In search of Roald Amundsen – Part 3 – the National Library of Norway
Getting closer and closer to Amundsen!!!! I was given the privilege of taking a close look at some of the holdings of the National Library of Norway. I have a long standing interest in the Polheim –...
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Sailing North – Part 1 – Life aboard Antigua
After having wandered the decks of Fram and envisioned the Arctic and Antarctic tribulations of Roald Amundsen, I was prepared to step aboard Antigua for three weeks of Arctic adventure. She first hove...
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Sailing North – Part 2 – In search of Ice
So I was headed north. In search of Polar Bears. In search of Roald Amundsen. In search of Ice. In imagining my Arctic trip from the temperate comfort of my Oakland studio, I did my required due...
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