Meg Ojala has lived in Minnesota most of her life and has taught photography at St. Olaf College for the past 30 years. She earned her BA at the University of Minnesota and her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Meg was a recipient of the of the 2005 McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship for Photographers. She is interested in space and place and the ways in which the world is transformed in a photograph. Her concern for the environment and her reading of literature, including poetry, spiritual writing, and nature writing, influences her work. Meg resides in Dundas, MN.
"For the past several years I have been photographing the woods, river, prairie and creeks near my home in Dundas, Minnesota. When I photograph the landscape, I am always captivated by line. I like to explore the ambiguities of space and time in my pictures. What is close and what is far away? What is moving, and what is still? Where is the ground, and where is it falling away? I am ever curious to see how the world will be transformed in a photograph." |
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