Dustin Aksland / News

I recently photographed Yves Behar at his Fuseproject studio in SF for the cover of the September issue of Azure magazine. You can read the article here.

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New work featured in the September issue of Dwell. You can check out the story here

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New work featured in the July/August issue of Dwell. In late March I travelled to Salt Lake City to photograph the first LEED for Homes-rated house in Utah. It was a great day photographing the home and hanging with the Mooney family. The only thing that could have made it better is if I had hit the freshly powdered slopes a few miles down the road.

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New work featured in the June issue of Dwell. This January I travelled throughout India for a month working on a personal project. (Check back soon, for an update) While there, I stopped in Mumbai for a couple of days and photographed the city, it’s people and some food (that was a first!) It was an amazing experience navigating the sprawling metropolis, by foot, cab, boat and train. I had only three days to shoot some 20 plus locations, so it was non stop from sunrise to sunset, schlepping cameras and tripod through hot and humid Mumbai. This was truly a dream assignment, a mind blowing city, wonderful people, great food and total creative freedom. I can’t wait to return. Thanks again Amy.

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“Four Days in Dubai” featured in Vogue Girl Korea.

“Forecast For Today” featured in the literary magazine Guernica. Have a look here:

SID is a magazine published annually by the Swedish publishing house Aller. This year the magazine featured it’s five favorite magazines from around the globe, Fantastic Man, Monocle, Interview, Vogue India and Wired. I spent the afternoon snooping around the Wired office photographing everything from the copy machine to the Creative Director. They ended up running a shot of the Creative Director Scott Dadich and Associate Editor Joe Brown chatting about an upcoming story.

The folks over at Urbanautica wrote a nice little review about my “Forecast for Today” series. Have a look here:

I have work featured in the current issue of ruby magazine. Have a look here:

I recently received the catalog for last years TH-Inside States of Mind exhibition. My photographs along with six other talented American photographers ( See below) were  exhibited in Brussels in October and Copenhagen in December. Here is some info about TH-Inside and the States of Mind exhibition:

TH INSIDE was developed out of Tommy Hilfiger’s desire to support and exhibit up and coming young American photographers throughout Europe. Since its inception in 2005 TH INSIDE has grown in visibility, and is well regarded by professionals within the international photographic industry.

Since its inception in 2005, TH INSIDE has been presented in Tommy Hilfiger Europe’s art exhibition space located adjacent to its freestanding store at no. 2/A Piazza Oberdan in Milan. Tommy Hilfiger launched the first exhibition, Beyond the Portrait, Young American Photography, with the participation of some of the most talented and emerging artists of today, including Alec Soth and Jona Frank.

The second exhibition, Think Twice, Young American Photography, determined the strength of TH INSIDE as a European benchmark for the diffusion of American photographic culture, thanks to the works of great artists such as Kevin Cooley and Dan Torop.

In April 2007, TH INSIDE returned to the Milanese art scene with its third exhibition NOISE, inspired by the concept of the perception of sound. The title of the show is an invitation to not only view the photographs, but to experience the sounds that live within them. For the first time since the project’s inception, TH INSIDE was shown in Berlin, outside of its home city of Milan.

The inspiration behind the ‘States of Mind’ exhibition is to examine existing representations of iconic America, which is achieved through the visual expressions of seven talented, young photographers. Their interpretations of American iconography are presented through the juxtaposition of images in their work.

The photographers: Dustin Aksland, Dylan Chatain, Tim Davis, Melanie Enzig, Gus Powell, Jonathan Quinn and Christina Seeley have all been exclusively selected by curator Elena Bordignon, an expert in photographic art and talent scout for young artists.. ‘States of Mind’ will be launched in Brussels at the end of October and moves on to Copenhagen in December.