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Art Reveal Magazine 37

SPIRITUAL LANDSCAPES

When, how and why started your art practice? Do you think of yourself as a conceptual artist?

I started photography at the age of 14. I was working Not sure if that is what I want to call it, but my trav-
at a remote country hotel, Budir in Iceland. The chef elling, connections and research make a big part in
had made a darkroom in a tiny vine cellar and it’s the final outcome. For me the creative process is all
where I developed my first film. After that night it was about the journey, literally and metaphorically as I
no return. Seeing the picture appear on the paper, am curious about all aspects of human life. I try to
was such a magic. The rest of the summer I didn’t works very much intuitively and with sensitivity and
sleep much as I spent most of the nights in this tiny respect to my subjects. But maybe even trying to ex-
cellar, I just loved it. plain my photography undermines the feeling or true
sense of the spirituality that lies beneath the surface.
To give meaning is also to determine it.
What is the most challenging part about working
with photography?
Tell us a little about your background and how
Photography is in a way an introduction into the pho- that influences you as an artist.
tographer himself – the artist, his or her inner-being
or soul. Therefore I suppose the most challenging Iceland is known to be quite an energetic place with
part is how to choose the subjects as the photograph all it´s magnificent forms of nature. One of the people
is in essence a statement – not written – but captured that played a big role in my childhood was my grand-
in a much more understanding or descriptive manner. mother. She is really talented and creative, but she