Iceland review - 2013, Qupperneq 12

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TweNTy-Five yeArs lATer
reykjaVík museum of PhotograPhy
guðmundur ingólfsson, kvosin 1986 & 2011
january 26 – may 12, 2013
guðmundur ingólfsson (born 1948) is one of the
grand masters of icelandic photography. For this
exhibition he revisited Kvosin in the heart of the
capital, taking pictures of the same places he did 25
years ago, with a 8x10 large format camera in black
and white. the new pictures are in 4x5 large format
and in color.
as guðmundur put it in a recent interview with
lesphotographes.com: “i’m inspired by curiosity. i
ended up documenting reykjavík a lot. it started in
the 80s and i’m still doing it. the city is changing
very quickly and i think there should be a few
photographers that document the city. Each time
they take a photo, the camera should be leveled
and they should note the day and time, like a sort of
surveillance. i’m not that exact with my work though.
almost every city is documented like that, but since
no one is doing it in reykjavík, i try to do so as my
time allows.” PS
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Culture Club
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BrewiNG up A
sTOrM
StoRmland
marteinn Þórsson
samfilm
in stormland (rokland;
2011), director Marteinn
Þórsson’s adaptation of
hallgrímur helgason’s
novel by the same name,
high-school teacher
Böddi is hopelessly
waiting to have his novel
published. inspired
by saga hero grettir
and german philosopher nietzsche, he writes a blog to vent his
frustration at the greed-driven icelandic society. the object of
Böddi’s affection ignores him and he feels misunderstood by the
small-town community where he lives. then life unexpectedly
takes a new turn, escalating towards a bombastic showdown.
actor ólafur darri ólafsson earned the 2011 Edda, the icelandic
Film and television award, for his portrayal of Böddi. ESA
FreAky FuTurAMA
love StaR
andri snær magnason
seven stories Press
in sci-fi love star, icelandic author
and environmentalist andri snær
Magnason of widely-published ‘self-
help book’ dreamland and children’s
book blue Planet, provides a freaky
futuristic outlook for iceland.
a mad scientist who goes by
the name love star has created a
business empire out of marketing
love and death. a computer program
can guarantee true love and after
death people wish to be rocketed
out to space. in life, people are fed
information, have given up their free will and are happily controlled by the
market.
at times laugh-out-loud, love star also has a serious undertone. ESA
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