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Tom arndt photographer biography sampler


For forty years, acclaimed photographer and native Minnesotan Tom Arndt has been documenting the faces of Minnesota with unparalleled skill and candor..


Tom Arndt: Where I Live features more than 35 photographs from 2015 to 2016, which capture the character of Arndt’s native Minnesota (as well as North Dakota and Montana).

He portrays everyday citizens — in their coffee shops and soda fountains, their streets, their parks, and at state fairs.

Because Thomas Arndt can shoot.

  • Because Thomas Arndt can shoot.
  • Noted photographer and native Minnesotan Tom Arndt spent 40 years capturing the heart of his beloved home state on film.
  • For forty years, acclaimed photographer and native Minnesotan Tom Arndt has been documenting the faces of Minnesota with unparalleled skill and candor.
  • The sampler of recent street photography that this exhibition contains will also include New Yorkers Tom Roma, Melanie Einzig, Jeff.
  • Gary Arndt is a photographer who has accomplished what many only dream of: making a living as a travel photographer, globe-trotting with.
  • A consistently resourceful street photographer, Arndt captures fleeting gestures and momentary juxtapositions between people and their surroundings, finding in them a sense of emotional or psychological depth. Author and radio personality Garrison Keillor has written of Arndt’s work, “They possess the crucial DNA of our culture.”

    Arndt photographs at traditional American events – a Memorial Day celebration, a demolition derby, an Indian Days event by the Blackfeet Indians of Browning, Montana.

    In every scene, he distills a purity and humanity in day-to-day life. He captures an elderly WWII veteran by a gravesite in West St. Paul, Minnesota; a young girl marching in the Parade of the B