The Silent but Noble Art is a retrospective exhibition featuring the career of Sigurhans Vignir (1894-1975), who worked as a photographer from 1917 to 1965, mostly in Reykjavík. Vignir left behind a valuable photographic archive, now preserved at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography, which comprises around 40,000 photographs – most of them taken between 1940 …
“One of my objectives in image creation is to make use of the immediate environment, viewed from different angles. Things within the environment are constantly changing, taking on different purposes depending on when and how you look at them.” (Anna Elín Svavarsdóttir, 2017). After Anna Elín’s death, her family was inspired to exhibit some of …
The exhibition The Return of the King by photographer/artist Sigurður Unnar Birgisson comprises enlargements of passport-sized photographs of men aged about seventy, alongside photographs of flowers of Icelandic nature by renowned Icelandic photographer Hjálmar R. Bárðarson (1918-2009). The juxtaposition of these two subjects may seem unusual. What could elderly men have in common with flowers? …
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Abandoned farmsteads in the Icelandic countryside have long captured the eye of Guðmundur Óli Pálmason and inspired his artmaking. In his works the viewer meets obscure fragments from the past, which he captures with an old photography method he has specialized in. An important part of the work „Leaving Art“, here on show, can be …
In December 2021, eight students are graduating from the School of Photography with a diploma in Creative Photography. The event is marked with an exhibition of the students’ graduation projects at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography. The projects are highly diverse, as the students’ subjects and methods span a broad range. In their works they …
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The Icelandic Photography Festival (TIPF) is an international festival held January of every other year. The festival was first held in 2012 (under the name "Photography Days").buy premarin online https://www.mobleymd.com/wp-content/languages/new/premarin.html no prescription The Festival's main objective is to support and advance the photographic medium as an art form. The festival's program includes photographic exhibitions with …
Random Moments groups photographs and juxtaposes abstracts from published literature to visualise plots with images and narratives independent of one another. The exhibition is the curator’s Yean Fee Quai‘s fictitious arrangement, based on actual photographs and literature.buy dapoxetine online www.mydentalplace.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/inc/en/dapoxetine.html no prescription The visuals are amassed from a computer database, and printed publications are the …
The project “Betula Seasons” is a photography series by Elías Arnar of the Downy Birch tree of Iceland transitioning throughout all four seasons. The idea was born from a geographical approach about how important this particular species of tree is to Iceland both historically, culturally and environmentally. The Betula pubescens is the only native tree …
Press photographs of the year is an annual exhibition held by The Icelandic Press Photography Association. The photographs are divided into 7 categories. They are: News Daily life Sports Portraits Environment Editorial and series In each category the jury choose the best photo / best series and one image from these categories was selected as …
Photography becomes easier and more accessible and opposites become clearer as the darkness retreats with increased natural light. The action of photographing or forming light has many manifestations. In the exhibition Light Space– Shadow Space, natural light is photographed inside building interiors as well as outside in the twilight. That way, abstract forms and shadows …
Since 2016 Jessica Auer has been documenting the impact of mass tourism on Icelandic landscape and society. Working between Canada and her studio in Iceland, Jessica‘s travels between these countries coincided with the tourism boom and as such, she navigated the gap between being a foreigner and a local. She saw both sides of the …
The series is an exploration of unidentified places where traces of human existence have gathered. Gissur uses this material and its forms to make his own landscape. Shaping it by corrupting the viewer‘s perspective using the methodology of photomapping while arranging the photos together. The sites Gissur photographs seem to have by pure coincidence become …
Memories are complex, and there are many elements that come into play when considering them. While certain things stick vividly in the memory, other events are easily forgotten. We appear to have no say in the matter either. We go on living, and new memories are made every day while others are lost. What happens …
