SDAN Member - Paul Knudsen
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Paul Knudsen, Photographer
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Born in South Dakota and a life long photographer, Paul built his first darkroom in 1955 when photography became his primary interest. He studied art and illustration at The California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco during the late 1950's and photography at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara Ca. during the early 1960's. He has since worked professionally in a wide area of photographic diciplines.
In 2003 Paul retired after 40 years of working in the photographic and broadcast engineering fields. Now his energy goes toward being a photographic artist on his own projects. His skill with a wide variety of camera formats and specialized equipment, much of his own design, is used to create unique images from the things that might go unnoticed in our daily life. Be they the compositions of nature, refractions of light or the shapes, patterns and faces of mankind.

"Reality is not what you see, but how you see it. Photography is an art of seeing, finding something of little interest and making it more interesting when viewed as a photograph. My camera is a tool and like a brush to the painter it allows me to preserve that precise moment of discovery. I don't go looking for anything in particular, I'm just looking. The photograph is a bonus."

A little bit Dali
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Very White Hat
© Paul Knudsen

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Bird in a bare tree
© Paul Knudsen

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