Iceland Revisited

I traveled around Iceland for two weeks in the end of October 2011, had made a set of landscape photographs and published them in 'Iceland: No frills country'. Since then I was working on other projects, some of them were about landscape photography, some were not. But one of them was special -  I was invited by Juraj Kušnierik to become a member of his project about people and music in Reykjavík. We visited Reykjavík in autumn 2012 and now we are working on a book which will be called Reykjavík Revisited.


As I was working on my other landscape projects I was continuously looking for new ways of expression. I believe that digital photography should not just mimic film photography. Developing of digital negatives is as important for landscape photography as was developing of negatives and printing of prints in the analog times. I've invented some new techniques, based on the separate developing of black and white photographs with a rich structure and full tonal scale and then re-colouring them using original digital negatives as the source of colours. Resulted photographs are full of details in shadows and lights, but hopefully they avoid the risk of vivid colours and over-saturation.


This is a special premium edition of newly developed photographs. They are from Snæfellsnes peninsula, West Iceland around Pingvallavatn, South East coast from Vík to Jökulsárlón lake, and North Iceland around Akureyri. There are some landmarks - pyramid shaped Kirkjufell Mountain, Gullfoss waterfall, which lies on the mighty glacier river Hvítá at the point where it falls into more then 30 meters deep and two kilometers long canyon, colourful Baula, Black sand beach between Vík and Dyrholaey, where you can stand face to face with Atlantic Ocean, or Goðafoss, the place where “formerly pagan chieftain Þorgeir after conversion to Christianity threw the wooden images of the pagan gods into the waterfall”. There are also some not so common places and spots. And Route 1, which is winding around the Iceland in long curves, around cliffs and waterfalls, crossing planes, rivers and bays. 


It was a very intensive experience to rediscover beautiful Icelandic landscape by working on these photographs and I hope that you, browsing this book, will feel the same amount of excitement and awe. Whether you love landscape photography or you are just looking for an inspiration to travel to Iceland, this is the book for you.