Michael Lundgren (b. 1974)

Michael Lundgren Resume

Michael Lundgren draws on a deep current in photographic tradition that takes the natural world as a seat of transcendence. Having spent his formative years in upstate New York, Lundgren was pulled west by the vastness of the desert. His first monograph, Transfigurations (2008), seeks to refine the value of the primitive landscape. Through photographic formalism, these images parallel the extremities of desert experience. Lundgren’s process depends on the creation of a body of work over time, with new images altering the course and meaning of the whole.