Professional experience

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Administration/Project Management
1979-83 |1985-90: Director of Fotogalleriet, responsibillities included budgeting, accounting, exhibition policies, media contact, PR, liason with local and national cultural authorities.
1983-86: Secured financial support for Fotogalleriet. From Arts Council of Norway and from 1986 from the Ministry of Culture.
1987: Organised Fotografi 87, a 10th anniversary jubilee for Fotogalleriet in cooperation with the Henie-Onstad Art Center, Oslo City Museum and several other private galleries. Ten exhbitions, seminars, workshops, etc. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Arts and Aftenposten.
1990-2002: Founder, manager, and editor-in-chief of Blikk, the country’s leading gay publication.
2000: Relaunching, restructuring and redesigning of Blikk after major investment by Christen Sveaas, one of the country’s eccentric billionaires.
2002-2005: President of Oslo Gay Pride (-2004), later project manager and director for EuroPride Oslo 2005.
2005-: Consultant with HivNorway. Budgeting, accounting, information, project management.
2007-2012: Project manager, twinning project between Blue Diamond Society (BDS), Kathmandu, Nepal and LLH, Oslo, Norway, financed by Norad.

Journalism
1981-1998: Free lance journalist
1984-1990: Fritt Fram/editor
1990-2001: Blikk/editor

Photographer
1976-1981: Freelance press photographer for the Norwegian dailies Adresseavisen, Akershus Arbeiderblad (Romerikes Blad), Dagbladet
1980-: Member of Samfoto picture agency

Layout/Design
1984-1990: Fritt Fram/newsprint
1983-1989: Exhibition catalogues
1991-2001: Blikk/newsprint

Teaching
1981-1985: Teaching photography at Nordstrand Comprehensive School, Oslo

Board representations (paid/unpaid)
1980-1981: Vice President of Society of Fine Art Photographers
1981-1984: President of Society of Fine Art Photographers
1984-1985: Vice President of Society of Fine Art Photographers
1980-1981: Member of the Arts Council’s Purchase Committee for Visual Arts
1982-1984: Member of the Arts Council’s Coordination Committee of Visual Artists
1984-1986: Member of the Norwegian Artists Council’s Media Committee
1988-1989: Member of the Council of Representatives of Kopinor
1988-1990: President of Fine Art Photographers’ Stipend Committee
1998-2002: President of Oslo Gay Pride Foundation
1985-2004: President of Helgesensgate 48 cooperative
2004-: Member of the International Committee of the Norwegian Gay Association

Exhibitions
1979-1982: One man exhibits at Fotogalleriet Oslo, Nikon Fotogallerie Zürich, Bryggen Museum Bergen, Kongsberg kunstforening, Bærum kunstforening, Aurskog-Høland kunstforening, and more.
1979-1986: Group exhibits at Oslo, Zürich, Copenhagen, Texas, Italy, Lithuania, Finland, Høvikodden, Tromsø, Svolvær, Sarpsborg, and more-
1979-1988: Represented at the Annual Arts Autumns Exhibition, Photography Spring Exhibition, and Eastern Norway’s Annual Regional Exhibition.
2003: Norwegian Photography–the Golde Age, Preus museum, Horten, Norway.
2007: Norwegian Photography 1974-2007, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Represented in the following art collections: Bibliotheque Nationale Paris, Arts Council of Norway, Norwegian Museum for Photography, Robert Meyer’s collections at the National Arts Museum, Art Collection of Bærum Municipality, Olav Løkke’s Collections.

Stipends
1978, 1987: State Travel Grant for Artists.
1979: Stipend from Arts Council of Norway, Akershus county and Lørenskog municipality.
1980, 1981, 1983, 1988: Stipend from Norwegian Photography Fund.
1983: City of Oslo Cultural Stipend.
1984: State Photography Grant.
1996: Travel grant from Norwegian Institute of Journalism.

Travels
1976-1979: Extensive travels around the Indian subcontinent. Reportage and photography.
1980-1984: Travels in Turkey. Photography.
1987-2007: Travels in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Photography and reportage.

Visited more than 60 countries. Spent more than seven years abroad.