Iceland review - 2013, Page 54

FaCe it
Photographer Kristinn Ingvarsson
(born 1962) is a master of portraits
and that’s a fact. For more than
20 years he has photographed the
who’s who in Icelandic culture
and business for daily newspaper
Morgunblaðið as well as authors for
all the major publishing houses in
the Republic.
Kristinn studied photography in
London at the Harrow College
of Higher Education. His final
project was a series of portraits
of the members of the House of
Lords; three images from the proj-
ect ended up in the permanent
collection of the National Portrait
Gallery in London.
Today, Kristinn works both
with a FF digital camera and a
Hasselblad 503CW medium for-
mat camera with black-and-white
film. The Hasselblad with the film
is his favorite tool, which he has
mastered to near perfection.
Kristinn’s exhibition Portrait of
Contemporary Authors, first shown
in Berlin in March 2011, has trav-
eled the world, first stopping at the
Frankfurt Book Fair, then in sever-
al cities in Germany, before head-
ing to China, India, and a number
of cities in the United States.
His first book of portraits,
Skuggaföll, was published by the
National Museum of Iceland in
2005 and his second, Sköpunarsögur,
by JPV in 2007. 
BY PÁLL stefÁnsson
PHOTOS BY KRistinn ingvaRsson
author stefán Máni (born 1970).