Essentially Public, by Peter Haakon Thompson

All photographs copyright © 2006 Peter Haakon Thompson; all rights reserved.

Peter Haakon Thompson is an artist based in Minneapolis. He is a past recipient of a Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Photographers, Forecast Public Projects grant, and a two time artist-in-residence at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim, Norway. His work has been published in Photo Metro, Camerawork Journal, and The New Yorker. He has also created public projects about place, the A Project, an effort to create solidarity among artists in their neighborhoods through the use of window signs with a large red 'A,' and Art Shanty Projects, a public art community/gallery existing for five weeks on frozen Medicine Lake in suburban Minneapolis.