Iceland review - 2015, Qupperneq 6

4 ICELAND REVIEW
Books are gone, photography is dead, the
magazine business is dying, good journalism
has disappeared. The only things left in the media
industry are soft-core 140-word articles about
famous people, who have forgotten why they are
famous, on the internet.
Not true! More books are now being published in
Iceland than ever. The photographic landscape is
healthier than I can remember with great Icelandic
photographers producing different kinds of world-
class works, like Baldur Kristjánsson and Helgi
Skúlason in this issue.
But in the 30-plus years I have been involved in the
magazine business, never have the changes been as
rapid as in the last five years.
The internet is now part of our bodies: literally in
our pockets, like a new organ. It’s been a struggle to
get paid for quality content on the World Wide Web—
but people are still willing to pay for magazines, and
books. It’s a different kind of pleasure to see a good
text and a nicely composed picture, on fine paper.
And that has been the goal of Iceland Review, for
more than 50 years: to bring to you the best of
culture, like the new Safnahús exhibition (see page
72); culinary creations (see page 66); history, like the
story about Auður djúpúðga on page 50; and the
different experiences of the people who live here, like
the interview with Hlín Baldvinsdóttir (see page 38).
Festivals, films, and of course the ever-changing
landscape, have been the magnet bringing more
than one million visitors to the Republic in 2014.
Landscape photography has been my hobby
since I started working as a photographer, at this
very magazine, a long time ago. Few things have
given me more fulfillment than waiting for the right
light, in a blizzard, somewhere in Northeast Iceland.
Truly my best moments.
Now, some of my favorite images, some published
in this magazine, are also available in my new book,
Iceland Exposed. Most of them were taken on trips
for Iceland Review over the last few years.
Long live print.
Páll Stefánsson
ps@icelandreview.com
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CORRECTION
In the last Issue of Iceland RevIew
(0215) an error was made in Eiríkur
Bergmann Einarsson’s article
‘Locking up the Banksters.’
The following statement is
incorrect: “In a controversial move,
Iceland’s former Prime Minister Geir
H. Haarde was sentenced to
suspended imprisonment for not
placing the risk of a banking crisis
on the agenda of formal cabinet
meetings.” Geir was not sentenced
to a suspended prison sentence.
While Geir was convicted for not
placing the risk of a banking crisis
on the agenda of formal cabinet
meetings, the sentence carried no
punishment. It is also important to
highlight that Geir was acquitted of
the other three, more serious,
charges against him and that the
state was made to cover his legal
costs.
Iceland Review apologizes to
Geir H. Haarde for this error.
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