Bio
Geir Jordahl’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. He was an Artist-in-Residence for Yosemite National Park in 1993. Jordahl’s book, “San Joaquin: River of Spirit”, was published by the Ansel Adams Gallery and the San Joaquin River Parkway Trust in 1997. He published the book “Traveler with Dreaming Mind” in 2004. “Searching for True North” was published by Modernbook Editions in 2007 and was awarded a Gold Medal and Best of Show in the PubWest Book Design Awards, a Silver Medal in Prix de Paris, and a Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards. “The Endless Sphere of Time” is his most recent book which continue his exploration of seeing more.

Statement
Circles complete the stories we make in our passing—images of moments in the sphere of time that connect to everything. Our world is round. Eyes, earth, sun, moon—all round, all connected. Perception is round. Life, death, rebirth—all round. It is in these cycles that I have hope despite the darkness. In the sphere of time and the circle of life, death is overcome, briefly, in every image I make. – Geir Jordahl

About
Geir and his wife Kate Jordahl founded True North Editions in 2012 as a collaborative effort to give voice to unique work by artists working authentically. They have worked together as a team since 1980 as editors, curators, and imagemakers. The Jordahl’s book projects include San Joaquin: River of Spirit with the Ansel Adams Gallery, Searching for True North with Modernbook Editions, Native American Ceremonial Dancers, The Village: Bill Owens – Jamaica, Pride: Heart of a Movement and Bill Owens: CARS. Collaborations with Dreaming Mind including Traveler, Jizo, the Conversation Series, and the one poem books. Book awards include a Gold Medal and Best of Show in the PubWest Book Design Awards, a Silver Medal in Prix de Paris and a Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards for Searching for True North and a Silver Award-Photography and a Bronze Award-Art in the PubWest Book Design Awards for Native American Ceremonial Dancers. The Jordahls also edited, published, and designed Cultures in Transition: Spirit Heart Soul which features the photographs of Oliver Klink. Cultures in Transition has been awarded nine international awards, including the 2019 IPPY Gold Award from the Independent Publisher, and the 2019 Judges’ Choice Award and a 2019 Gold Award from PubWest. Geir and Kate Jordahl both have Masters of Fine Arts Degrees in Photography from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. In 1983 they founded the PhotoCentral Program in Hayward, California, and were directors of PhotoCentral until 2020. Kate is a Professor Emerita of Photography at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California. The Jordahls now operate True North Editions based in Bellingham, Washington.

From the Afterword of “True North”
For me, it’s the picture of the bridge in the sky that looks like a Viking ship from below. Somehow, it is flying, floating, above me. The bridge ends like a bowsprit disappearing into the clouds. It’s one of the many magical images in Geir Jordahl’s long-awaited book, The Endless Sphere of Time.” For forty years, the photographer has traversed the globe, from his homeland of Norway to the Far East, to the American West, and beyond. It seems that he might need that Viking ship to travel the vast distances covered in this project. He is endlessly searching, exploring, discovering. From the grand vistas of the mountains to the minutest details, like a beetle moving through a tangle of grass. It is like he has seen it all. Experienced the beginning of time. Moved through the ages. To find himself not at the end. But at another beginning.

– Ann Jastrab

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