Knutson Photography, Inc.

03/19/2026

Tomorrow, Nina Totenberg, from NPR!

01/03/2026

Headshots and group photo for the Mpls Park board today. Third, or fourth time doing this. 8 loads down 1 and ½ flights of stairs, and 8 loads back up. Time for the image processing!
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10/10/2025

A new portrait goal!

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"

09/29/2025

Happy 82nd birthday to L**h Walesa! I’ll be seeing him tomorrow! Here is the cover of the Polish language autobiography published on his 80th birthday. It is my portrait of him from 1998 at Luther College!

09/23/2025

Thursday October 2nd I begin my 33rd year photographing the Westminster Town Hall Forum speakers! Come on down, or listen online!

09/02/2025

L**h Walesa, Solidarity Union leader, President of Poland, Nobel Peace Laureate, has started a speaking tour of the US and Canada. At the end of the month he will be here in Minneapolis. The promo piece for the tour uses my 1998 portrait of him.
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07/30/2025

September 30th in Minneapolis!

This Fall L**h Walesa will be touring the US and Canada speaking about the challenges of our time.
His Minneapolis speech will be September 30th at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
The portrait used in the ad is one I photographed in 1998 at my alma matter, Luther College, in Decorah, IA. He had told the designer “contact this guy, this is my favorite portrait of me!” Flattering words from a person so widely photographed!

An Evening with President L**h Walesa

07/06/2025

Happy 90th birthday to the Dalai Lama. This is my 2001 portrait of him for The Carlson Lecture series hosted by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. It was taken backstage at Northrup Auditorium at the University of Minnesota.

05/16/2025

I use to carry a notebook of my portraits to show subjects my work, later I updated to an ipad, at Westminster I have a wall!
Tuesday's Westminster Town Hall Forum speaker Robert Samuels looking over my portraits of past Westminster speakers.

03/27/2025

A friend recently asked about getting a personal portrait done. Here are the samples I put together.
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09/09/2024

R.I.P. James Earl Jones, (1/17/31-9/9/2024).
My portrait of him from 1992 when he was in Minneapolis to perform with the Plymouth Music series, now called Vocal Essence. I found him to be a most kind and gracious person.

08/02/2024

Today is the 100th anniversary of James Baldwin’s birth. Here is my 1984 portrait of him!