Iceland review - 2016, Page 4

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4 FROM THE EDITOR
6 EYE FOR AN EYE
Searching for one’s self in downtown
Reykjavík.
8 ALL THE SINGLE MOTHERS
Photographer Annie Ling explores the
everyday lives of single mothers in Iceland.
10 MARVELOUS MUSIC AND MORE
Iceland Review takes a look at three festivals
happening in March.
12 CULTURAL CURIOSITIES
Reviews of three recent book,
music and film releases.
14 ICELAND’S SWIMMING
SENSATION
Elliott Brandsma asks Iceland’s 2015
Sportsperson of the Year, Eygló Ósk
Gústafsdóttir, about her career to date.
18 LONDON CALLING
Fashion designer Aníta Hirlekar has enjoyed
considerable success since completing
her studies in London in 2014.
24 H2O
Waterfalls, rivers, glaciers, lakes... Iceland has
an abundance of water, as Páll Stefánsson’s
latest landscape photography series shows.
36 WELCOME HOME
Zoë Robert travels to Akureyri to meet one of
the six Syrian families resettled in Iceland
in January.
42 ICELAND IN A CHANGING
CLIMATE
Iceland’s chief climate negotiator Hugi
Ólafsson talks to Zoë Robert about climate
change and what the Paris Agreement
means for the country.
48 THE CONJURER
Photographer Kristina Petrošiutè conjures up
the worlds of science fiction, the classics
and old films in fresh ways.
ICELAND REVIEW
53 ACCIDENTAL YOGIS
Rachel Mercer speaks with two former
bankers about their journey from finance to
finding themselves.
56 THE CURSE OF BEAUTY
Halldór Lárusson discusses architecture in
the capital.
60 BLACKLISTED BY MOSCOW
Yaroslava Kutsai takes a look at Russia’s
import ban, imposed against the West in
retaliation for sanctions over the Ukrainian
crisis, and its impact on Iceland.
64 TRADITIONS REINVENTED
Chef Gísli Matthías Auðunsson is reinventing
traditional Icelandic recipes in a quest for
wider appeal for Icelandic food.
68 LINELIKE
Páll Stefánsson pays homage to the magic of
the February light.
74 MCM
Photographs from the year 1900 provide
a glimpse of life in Iceland as a poor
Danish colony.
80 A NEW TWIST
Hélène Magnússon speaks with Michaela
Cavallaro about renewing Icelandic
knitting traditions.
83 SUPPLEMENT
– WONDERS OF THE EAST
Learn all about activities and adventures
in East Iceland.
95 SUPPLEMENT
– INVEST IN ICELAND
A guide to business opportunities.
107 SUPPLEMENT
– DRIVING AROUND ICELAND
Travel tips for your road trip around the
country.
128 – LAST PAGE
The first European to arrive in North America
stands tall in front of Hallgrímskirkja.
On the cover: From Seltún geothermal area, Reykjanes. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.