ICELAND PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

ICELAND PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

FEATURING EINAR “EFFI” FALUR INGOLFSSON & RAGNAR AXELSSON

Iceland is a country of beauty and contrasts. Known for its dramatic landscapes and natural marvels, it has been an inspiration for artists for centuries. We have specifically chosen these 9 days for the workshop because it is a time of great activity in Iceland. There are festivals taking place the first weekend and a colorful pride parade in Reykjavik. There are also many themes and events to be photographed in and around the capital city where the workshop takes place.

TRIP DURATION: PRICE: Regular fee $1,995 USD for tuition only. Iceland residents fee is $1,495 USD. 9 days, 9 nights

DATES: ACCOMMODATIONS: Please request our hotel list for suggestions. Aug 6-15, 2017

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This is an assignment based-workshop. REQUIREMENTS photographs of authors, taken for Each student will meet with the various publishing houses, and instructors every day for their individual Attendees should bring their portfolio to photographic narratives compiled in a edit and critique session of what they the class for review. Students can shoot host of countries, including India, shot the day before. The rest of the day either film or digital. Each student is China, Bolivia, Peru, Australia, the will be spent shooting. Icelanders speak responsible for bringing their own United States, Canada, and the Faeroe English and Danish widely, so there is camera and equipment—including a Islands. He has taught extensively in no need for translators. laptop for digital shooters. Film The Photography School in Reykjavik, shooters must bring their own film the Iceland Academy of Arts and the Each student must bring his or her since film is difficult and expensive to last years he taught a workshop with portfolio. On Monday, August 7th, there purchase in Iceland. his mentor and friend Mary Ellen Mark is a general critique of each student’s in Reykjavik. He has edited a number of work. It will be held at the School of ABOUT EINAR “EFFI” FALUR photographic books and lectured widely Photography. Every evening, the group INGOLFSOON on photography. gathers to check in on their assignments for the next day and for a Among Effi’s books are Saga-Sites – In lecture with local artists and experts the Footsteps of W.G. Collingwood, that will share their work. nominated for the Icelandic literery price and the exhibition mounted in On the last day of the workshop there’ll Reykjavik and New York City; a book of be a final group critique at The National t r a v e l e s s a y s , w r i t t e n a n d Museum in Reykjavik. Each student will photographe;; The Selection, on the show the edited work they’ve made history of Icelandic photography, and over the course of the class. A selection nine books on flyfishing and nature in will be made of the three or four best Iceland. Einar “Effi” Falur Ingolfsson was born in images from each student. These 1966. He was only fourteen’s years old images will be displayed that afternoon http://www.efi.is when he started working as a in the museum’s lobby. The p h o t o g r a p h i c - s t r i n g e r f o r photographs will also be compiled in a Morgunbladid, Iceland’s leading book that can be purchased after the newspaper, later he completed a class.This workshop will be a wonderful ABOUT RAGNAR AXELSSON degree in literature at the University of opportunity for everyone to become a Iceland and an MFA in Photography at better photographer, as well as the School of Visual Arts, New York in experience Iceland a most personal 1995. He spent 15 years as the way. D i r e c t o r o f P h o t o g r a p h y o f Morgunbladid, Iceland’s leading newspaper. His photographs have WHO SHOULD ATTEND? appeared in many exhibitions in museums and galleries, books, This class is for photographers of all newspapers, and periodicals both in levels. This workshop will be a Iceland and abroad. wonderful opportunity for everyone to become a better photographer, as well Ragnar Axelsson has dedicated his Ingólfsson in one of Iceland’s best as experiencing Iceland a most career to the subsistence hunters, k n o w n a r t a n d d o c u m e n t a r y personal way. fishermen and farmers of the photographers. His work includes photoxpeditions.com [ +1.888.741.3974 [email protected] ] 2 ICELAND PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP circumpolar area that live on the has been travelling around Europe 60–90 days prior to departure: 100% fringe of the habitable world. Since since 2010 and has, among other of your deposit amount; the early 1980’s he has travelled to venues, been shown in Reykjavík, 45–60 days prior to departure: 50% of the Arctic, documenting the lives of Dublin, Bergen, Lübeck, Milan, the expedition cost; the Inuit hunters in Northern Canada London, Saarbrücken and Brussels. and Greenland, the farmers and 45 or fewer days prior to departure: fishermen in the North-Atlantic Ragnar Axelsson was born in 100% of the workshop cost. region and the indigenous people of Iceland in 1958 and started his PhotoXpeditions reserves the right of Northern Scandinavia and Siberia. training as a photographer at the canceling the workshop at any time if His stories have appeared in print age of 16 in a traditional the minimum amount of students media publications such as Time photographic atelier. At 18 he was required for the workshop is not magazine, Life, Stern, GEO, Polka, already a staff photographer at the reached. If a workshop needs to be Wanderlust, Geographical and leading Icelandic newspaper, cancelled for this reason, a full refund Newsweek, and are the subject of Morgunblaðið, and has ever since will be given to all participants. his major photography books: Faces continued his lifelong If you need more information or have of the North (2004 – republished in documentation project on the fate of questions, give us a call or drop us an an extended version in 2015), Last the people and nature of the North. Days of the Arctic (2010) and email, we will respond promptly. Behind the Mountains (2013). www.rax.is Behind his oeuvre is a strong Herzen Cortes conviction that the traditional +1-888-741-3974 culture of the Arctic people is [email protected] disappearing and will not be able to www.photoxpeditions.com resist the disrupting effects of larger TERMS & CONDITIONS forces of economy and climate To reserve space in this workshop, a change. In 2011 a documentary on $500 per person deposit is required at his work was released, Last Days of the time of making the reservation. the Arctic – Capturing the Faces of Deposits are due no later than 90 days the North, produced by BBC4, NDR, prior to departure. Final payment is due ARTE and ITVS. no later than 60 days prior to departure unless indicated otherwise in the Axelsson’s three major photography description of the tour or workshop. All series are narrative photo payments must be made by credit card collections, spanning more than two or wire transfer to PhotoXpeditions, decades each. In Faces of the North LLC, and instructions for payments will (2004) he focus on the lives of be mailed upon confirmation of individuals in remote areas in the participation. North, whereas in Last Days of the Arctic (2010) he contrasts the wider PhotoXpeditions reserves the right to global context of climate change cancel a reservation if full payment has with stories of subsistence hunters not been received by 60 days prior to in Greenland and Canada. In his departure. For reservations made latest series, Behind the Mountains within 60 days of the departure date, (2013), Axelsson presents 100 full payment is required when the photographs to draw together his reservation is accepted. All cancellation 25-year-long engagement with a notices must be received in writing and small community of farmers and will become effective as of the date of their annual sheep round-up in the the postmark. If you cancel 90 days or Icelandic highlands. The Faces of more prior to departure, a refund less the North series was widely an administrative fee equal to 50% of exhibited, including exhibitions at your deposit will be made. Per person the Recontres d’Arles Photo Festival charges for cancellations that occur (2001) and Alfred-Ehrhardt- less than 90 days prior to departure are Foundation, Cologne (2005). The as follows: Last Days of the Arctic exhibition photoxpeditions.com [ +1.888.741.3974 [email protected] ] 3