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If you’re feeling good about what you’ve accomlished
today, I’d suggest you steer clear of taking a look at
Brian Griffin’s CV. The acclaimed British portrait
photographer from Birmingham has photographed
Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, Billy Idol, and everybody
in between. A few years back, Griffin turned his eye
on Iceland, and has been periodically working and
exhibiting in Reykjavík ever since. In his latest book
project, “The Water People,” Griffin teamed up with
Reykjavík Energy, the company supplying hot water
and electricity to the city, to go where only Jules Verne
has gone before: on a journey to the center of earth.
See the exhibition of “The Water People” at Gallery
100° from March 4 through April 8. a
Reykjavík Energy (Orkuveita Reykjavíkur), Bæjarháls 1,
110 Reykjavík. +354 516 6000.
The Life Aquatic
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10,000 Days
Stop by the newest exhibit at the Reykjavík Museum
of Photography, “10,000 Days with a Camera,” by
Icelandic photographer Fridrik Örn.
“10,000” is an exhibition of Örn’s hobby photography,
selected from photos he started taking 10,000 days ago,
when he got his first camera at the age of eight. The 27
years of photographs chronicle the changes in the technol-
ogy of photography as much as provide a visual record of
an artist’s life. Polaroids, videos, cuttings, diaries, photo-
wallpaper, super-size prints and cameras all hang together in
the exhibit, which the photographer himself characterizes
as “so diverse and extensive that it verges on the chaotic.”
Örn, who graduated from the Brooks Institute, California,
with a BA in photography in 1994, has worked in commer-
cial photography, feature films, theater, and television. a
“10,000 Days with a Camera,” Reykjavík Museum of Photography. Free
Admission. February 18 – May 24. Grófarhús, Tryggvagötu 15, 6th Floor,
101 Reykjavík. +354 563 1790. www.ljosmyndasafnreykjavikur.is
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