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Bernie | Faroe Islands | 2021
The first portrait in a series I will be posting here over the coming weeks. I’m newly done with a film and excited to get back to sharing some work!
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Loved the street lights shimmer on this Xing sign. Also happens to be where I was hit by a Land Cruiser while crossing the street back in October (no damage). Driving is a luxury that we need to take away from most people. It’s absolutely not a right.
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This aggression will not stand. Long past time to stop this nonsense with cars. Why is this even the acceptable thing to do in this situation? If your car is broken down, then leave it on the street and make it an issue for other cars to deal with and not for those of us who are doing the moral thing by walking.
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Going for range. Flash fill to make it possible. Did I miss the focus, or is it the perfect mistake?
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Believe it or not, this is the spot in which I decided that I would be moving to Iceland. It looked a lot different then, but the vibe was still very similar to how it depicted here.
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The face of a child that knows more about being a good person and how to be a better human than 99% of adult males in our society.
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Culture in 2022.
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Happy New Year to everyone except those who work in Alþingi. Do a better job of representing everyone, not just the wealthy. As an immigrant that is forced to pay attention because of your incompetence, I am privileged enough to understand just how bad you are at your job. Do better for those who don’t have the privilege to know how you are failing them.
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My second favourite tree in Reykjavík.
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They call it progress, but I don’t feel like things are any different.
The problem with the world today is that we come up with solutions to major problems allaying the bottom line, instead of resolving the actual problem. The car on the right is still a major obstacle to creating a world in which we are not actively destroying the planet. The real solution is not having a car in every fucking driveway.
Photographs to Remember.
As a Photographer I am taking photographs as much for the ability to look at them two hours later, three days later, four years later or fifty years later. The point is, as it has always been the base objective of photography: to freeze a moment in time. Thus, the viewer is meant to look deeper — scrolling past belies the entire concept of my work. Consume it. Inhale, exhale. Scan the photograph from left to right, up to down and back again. Inhale, exhale. Draw it into your memory. Now you understand my work.
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Winter in Reykjavík is something else. (When the weather is right)
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That winter light.
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Fróði II
This little guy was brought into the dry dock to presumably get a fresh coat of paint and a pep talk reminding him not to get too down on himself for being the little guy on the dock. Apparently this is an Icelandic lobster boat. Whatever it is, it is really funny to see a boat with such strange proportions out of the water.
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State of Things
I took this photograph on 11.10.2019 and titled it, State of Things. In the time from October 2019 until December 2021, a lot has changed. And still, the only thing that needs changing and has absolutely not changed is the destruction of our society’s dependence on an economic system that directly benefits those who are most willing to expose the value of other human lives without consideration of their intrinsic value. We were in a crisis in 2019. Our rents were skyrocketing and the Main Street in Reykjavik was being inundated with empty storefronts. Businesses were increasingly shuttering while the prices rose to combat an unattainable bottom line.
So now, in the face our 21st month of a pandemic that has ground all life to a halt, only the rich can claim that we are doing our best to stop the failing of society. Prices are in a place that makes shopping impossible and eating a meal out is basically a luxury that only someone who can afford to miss two weeks work can fathom. Now, in many ways, I am absolutely a member of that group, and yet, I am farther from the top of that group than I am from the group below it, the one that has no chance to make it in this state of things. I can afford a few things here and there but I cannot afford to miss any time of work. If we are told to look in the mirror and say that we currently live in the greatest of times, what are they looking into the mirror thinking? And if I am so lucky, why does it feel more and more like a coming revolution is meant to be lead by those who are aware of how unequal this world is?
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I took this photograph right around the time that this section of town was completed back in 2019. It feels like a computer render to me for some reason.
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RVK
Snapped this on a regional flight from Reykjavík to Seyðisfjörður. The city is quite something to view from above.
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Kerið
We’ve been having a lot of earthquakes again, so in turn, I have been thinking about landscape more. This is from a spot on southern part of Iceland, pretty close to the largest cluster of summer homes in the country. It’s a volcanic crater that is around 3000 years old. The photograph I took is directly inspired by an old photo of one of my wife’s relatives at the same place many years ago.
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37
Today I’m 37 years old. I took this back in the beginning of the year, but it represents me today pretty well. Looking forward to another year!