DEEP ICELAND – WEST FJORDS
This is the first preview of a project called “The Deep Fjord”. After more than five years of photo documentary in the west of Iceland, this project is soon coming to an end. This is the story of the inhabitants, the farmers and there surroundings, who live in a remote part of Iceland. After hundreds of years this community is soon coming to an end. 2011 project end. To see more pictures click on STORIES.

Thorvaldur Örn Kristmundsson has been a photographer for two decades and started as a press photographer. For many years Thorvaldur was Chairman for Icelandic Press photographers Association and also The Chairman for the Nordic Press photographers community. Covering major news events in Iceland and also in many parts of the world, his focus today is mainly photo documentary and exploring the photographic medium as an art form. Born 1970 in Reykjavik Iceland, Thorvaldur has worked and made stories for various agencies and magazines all over the world. After dozens of exhibitions, the focus is today mainly on several projects including a book on a life in remote places, still life exhibitions and, " No Human Concept " that will take place in Iceland. Finishing in 2011, "Deep Iceland-West Fjords" Project, Pyramides in Landscape and Kept from Time. A serie of exhibitions from "Deep Iceland-West fjords", starts this summer in Perspektivet Museum, Norway.
"Not only have I traveled to countries suffering war, followed major sport events, met kings and queens, world leaders and musicians, but also realised that it takes no more than the story of a simple life of one person to make it greater than the everyday headlines of world events.”