MORTEN GJERDE

Last week, from October 11 to 17, I was in London. Originally, I attended the workshop with the Swedish photographer Anders Petersen, but it was canceled shortly before it all happens, but I went anyway to England and dedicated all

Tore, or Thore? …Holm-Hansen, or Holm Hansen? It’s confusing, because in the begining of the 1990-decades  I found a lost passport, and the owner was well known as one of the most famous crooks that walk on the Norwegian mainland

It was with sorrow I get the message yesterday that Willie Seaberry was passed away! My first visit to the “middel of nowhere club”, Po Monkey’s lounge, was back in 1998. Two years before Annie Leibovitz did the same. I have

I have today tested my new tool for big-city-explores. A fantastic high-end “Xootr MG” – why model MG? Guess one time 🙂 – my name is Morten Gjerde, I don’t say anymore 🙂 This is the ultimate tool for fast

Smøla and the spesific point of Veiholmen is a fascinating place in the absolut end of Norway in the direction of west. The nearest point you can find in Norway to the vikings at the Geisir vulcan island “Island”. I have

Yesterday, 6th of may 2015, I attended a “night session” arranged by Åmål Photo Festival in Sweden. Here is a photo captured at these session, -between a window at the local train station. 1/40 sec – f.stop: 2.8 – handheld with

Italy, my first visit. I make a desition to travel 3 different cities. I booked a flight to Milano and after some days I get on the train to Firenze. The next journey was also with train to Rome. Here

I’m now working on a brand new project about a man, a real Norwegian man. The working title is just his name: AUDUN, but what this project will include it’s only up to the future to tell. He lives in

  Fra Valen Psykiatriske Sykehus sin bortgjemte gravplass. Her ligger mest tause graver, uten navn, bare med flate skiferheller som tause markører på bakken. Rekke på rekke med tause stener. -Ingen navn, ingen dato, -bare endeløse grå flater av ingenting.

At last sunday, a iconic picture taken by me of the norwegian artist Knut Reiersrud was published in the national newspaper Dagbladet. This picture was captured in a formal photosession where we shoud make a picture after the well known picture of the

Mina, -my 17  year old daughter, have done her first work to be exhibited in a group exhibit in Oslo, Norway. A total of 30 pictures are displayed outside the “Oslo Rådhus” -building from 11th to 22’nd february 2013. Mina’s

Den 1 januar 2013 lanserte jeg min egen fotobok-blogg. Fra denne platformen vil jeg formidle kunnskap og nyheter rundt temaet fotobøker som samleobjekt. Fotobøker er de siste årene blitt et populært samleområde rundt om i hele verden. Undertegnede føler at