“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.” ― Italo Calvino Says Kathy: We are driving to Höfn, in south-east Iceland, on a journey defined by dramatic, ever-changing geography and unpredictable weather. Wind whistles and carves through the landscape, and we turn the steering wheel 11 degrees to...
Balint Alovits: Acclimate
Acclimate project was shot in Iceland and is about how an inhabited area is formed where natural conditions are basically unsuitable for human life. Project aims to represent how mankind adapts to extreme natural conditions by shaping its habitat and how man-made objects redefine raw nature while interacting with it....
Interview with documentary photographer Jessica Auer
Jessica Auer is a Canadian photographer and visual artist who works between Montréal, Québec and Seydisfjördur, Iceland. Her work is broadly concerned with the study of landscapes as cultural sites, focusing on themes that connect history, place, journey and cultural experience. In the last decade, she has completed over a...
Matthew Broadhead: Heimr
In 1965 and 1967 NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey organized field trips to Iceland for American astronauts to learn geology in locations described as ‘terrestrial analogue sites’. Also called ‘space analogues’, they are places on Earth with assumed past or present geological, environmental or biological conditions of a celestial...
Luca Tombolini: Landscapes
The dawn of mankind, a time with no rationality. An ancestor contemplating the cosmos perceives the necessity of a divinity. The Second Cosmogony takes place along with the miracle of self-thinking consciousness. In that moment he knows he exists for a reason; he's got the significative element and this had...
Jakub Polomski: Iceland Aerial Landscapes
In July 2015 during two weeks time Polish photographer Jakub Polomski drove 4000 km including seaside and interior. For taking photos he was using both DSLR and drone with built-in camera. Iceland is unique land, however some locations look really abstractive in the bird’s eye view. All photos were captured by drone with...
Ragnar Axelsson: Faces of the North
Ragnar Axelsson was born in Iceland in 1958 and started his training as a photographer at the age of 16 in a traditional photographic atelier. At 18 he was already a staff photographer at the leading Icelandic newspaper, Morgunblaðið, and has ever since continued his lifelong documentation project on the...
Tim Rudman: ICELAND. An Uneasy Calm
Iceland has become a hugely popular destination for photographers around the world. Now ‘Iceland. An Uneasy Calm’ presents 98 reproductions of toned silver gelatine prints taken and printed over the last eight years by Tim Rudman, described by Ilford Photo / Harman Technology as “one of the very finest landscape...