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a few months back i read an article on some english newspapers website about an exhibition that was being put up with the photographic work of artist dieter roth. roth walked the streets of reykjavik, capturing his view of the houses in the city. the project ended up being some 31.000+ slides of houses in rvk and some say every house in the city was captured by roth. reading the article i got a little inspired and decided to go for a little walk in the snow and photograph a small street in my hometown called austurgata or east st. all in all it was freezing but fun.















"austurgata, winter 2011"

One Hundred & Sixty Two

after i got some films from reykjavik music mess back from the lab last month i uploaded them onto the computer right away and for some reason just forgot about them. was looking over them this morning and decided to post a few frames from the few rolls that i shoot during the festival. black and whites are shot on the ilford hp5 and the color photos are shot on a kodak 400vc. you can also check out a full blown review of the festival over at icecreamman.com , big thanks to the folks at reykjavik grapevine for helping us out with that.
















"random reykavik music mess 2011"

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some models are just more difficult the others and don't want to stay in
the frame when having some fun in the snow.

One Hundred & Sixty

if there is one album that i have been waiting to come out of the oven for a long time, its borko´s sophomore album and now it sounds like the wait is coming to an end. after hearing some of his new material on tour with seabear and sin fang a few years back, i´ve wanted to hear more, much more. this winter borko aka björn kristjánsson has been busy in his petite studio recording new songs and getting some amazing musicians to collaborate in the process. a few weeks ago i dropped by the studio and caught a few frames when sóley did her thing on the accordion. then last week it was time to get some live borko action when the band opened up for apparat organ quartet. and if you find yourself in reykjavik on the 16th and 17th of april make sure you check out the citys newest music festival, reykjavik music mess.




"borko & sóley in the studio"



"borko @ sódóma"

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sometimes documenting the preparation before a fashion assignment turns out to be just as much fun as the actual assignment. at least that was my experience the other day when i took these photos.

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the brilliant and talented sóley from seabear is finishing up here first full length album these days which for all music lovers is the best of news. last year she released the EP "theater island", which was hailed as one of 2010´s best albums by many in the icelandic music press. its possible to listen to it here at the wonderful gogoyoko.com and i highly recommend everyone check it out. last fall the sun was out in full swing and me and sóley did a little promo portrait session behind her house in reykjavík and when i was backing up 2010 the other day i came across the photos from the session and picked out my favorite three.





"sóley in the sun in downtown rvk"

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my friends from seabear are touring the us at the moment and playing for the first time on the west coast. the tour kicked off in nyc last week and seabear got a little press on the wall street journal website accompanied by a photo from their album release concert that i took at iðnó in reykjavik this summer.

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i was going through some photos the other day and found these that i took this spring of one of icelands best jazz bands, ADHD playing at a weekly concert put on by múlinn jazz club.




"ADHD @ múlinn jazz club"

One Hundred Fifty Five

last week i shot this portrait of icelandic football player jóhann laxdal, who plays for stjarnan FC in the icelandic premier league for a german football magazine called 11 freunde. laxdal and his teammates have been celebrating goals this summer in a rather unique way. one of these celebrations is the salmon fishing one and can be viewed here, this one has around 500.000 views and there are more. the magazine went to print at the end of last week, so i might have the tear sheet posted later this week when i get a copy of it. click on the photo to view larger.


"jóhann laxdal"