Iceland review - 2016, Page 42

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Coast, Queensland. “It was an adventure.
I just love the name, too: the ‘Sunshine
Coast.’ It was a great place. Really great,
quality light; sun all year round,” she
tells me by phone from her home in
Gothenburg, Sweden. Having taken
photographs from a young age, it wasn’t
until 2005 that Anna decided to go pro-
fessional—but the decision process took
time. “I was working as the assistant to
the vice president of a prominent com-
pany in Iceland. It was a great job with a
great salary but I just wasn’t feeling it at
all. I thought: ‘there must be something
better for me than this,’” says Anna.
Determined to make changes in her life,
she packed up and moved to Sweden.
In her spare time she continued taking
photos. “I had always photographed but
I never thought of it as something I could
do as a career.” That all changed when a
friend encouraged her to hold an exhibi-
tion. To Anna’s surprise, all of her images
sold, and she was persuaded to follow
her passion and study photography. “I
was over 30 and thought I was too old to
start something new. It’s funny because
now I’m 44 and I’m really still a teenager
in this field.”
A study abroad agency in Sweden
recommended the Sunshine Coast
school and six months later she arrived
Down Under. Anna eventually had to
return to Iceland after she had issues