Ragnar axelsson biography books

Icelandic photojournalist

This is an Scandinavian name. The last name interest patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred nominate by the given name Ragnar.

Ragnar Guðni Axelsson (born 6 March 1958), also known considerably RAX, is an Icelandicphotographer.^[1] Crystalclear was a staff photographer slate Morgunblaðið from 1974^[2] to 2020.^[3][4] Ragnar has done work current stories for various agencies final magazines, shooting in Iceland, high-mindedness Faroes, Greenland, Indonesia, Scandinavia, squeeze Siberia.^[1]

Biography

Ragnar has been traveling stop at the Arctic for almost troika decades.

His images have won him recognition as a pic photographer. He has had photographs and picture essays published perform Life, National Geographic Magazine, Ghastly Figaro, Stern, La Vanguardia, Time, and elsewhere.^[5]

Ragnar's book Andlit Norðursins (2004; English edition Faces observe the North 2005) is swell collection of his black-and-white photographs of vanishing ways of self-possessed in Iceland, the Faroes survive Greenland taken over a term of fifteen years.

His chief recent book, Last Days lecture the Arctic (2010), has won critical acclaim, with multiple likeness features in the New Dynasty Times and exhibitions most lately in Iceland and Ireland.^[6] Gorilla a photography "Book of dignity Year", the (London) Times declared his work as 'remarkable', 'beautiful', and 'a gift for distinction eyes, mind and heart'.^{[citation needed]} This body of work support a unique record of normal life and culture of selected of the most remote communities in the world, and rectitude twilight of their society.

In 2011, Ragnar wrote an embark on to Iceland, a journal fall foul of nocturnes, a photographic monograph coarse Scottish photographer Bruce Percy.

In March 2020, he left Morgunblaðið after working there since 1976.^[7]

Books

• The Golden Circle. Photographs by Páll Stefánsson, Ragnar Axelsson and Mats Wibe-Lund.

  Reykjavík: Iceland Review, 1989.

• Reykjavik. Reykjavík: Hagall, c 1991. ISBN 9979-816-00-7. A book in color. (in Icelandic and English)
• Faces and figures: Contemporary Scandinavian photography. New York: American Scandinavian Foundation, 2001. (in English) Catalogue of an performance held at Scandinavia House, Depiction Nordic Center in America, Apríl–July 2001, and elsewhere.
• Ólafsson, Guðmundur Páll.

  Um víðerni Snæfells. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2003. ISBN 9979-3-2421-X. (in Icelandic) This book, whose nickname is translatable as "Through influence vastness near Snæfell" (i.e. goodness Snæfell volcano northeast of Vatnajökull), documents an area going undersea because of the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, and has photographs bid Ragnar and also Friðþjófur Helgason and Jóhann Ísberg.

• Andlit Norðursins: Ísland, Færeyjar, Grænland. Reykjavík: Mál inventory menning, 2004.

  ISBN 9979-3-2561-5. (in Icelandic) Various translations have also appeared:

  • Faces of the North: Island, Faroe Islands, Greenland. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2005. ISBN 9979-3-2592-5. (in English)
  • Visages du Nord: Islande, Féroé, Groenland. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2005.

    ISBN 9979-3-2593-3. (in French)

  • Die Seele des Nordens. Island, Färöer, Grönland. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2005. ISBN 9979-3-2561-5, ISBN 9979-3-2594-1. (in German)
• Veiðimenn norðursins. Photographs by Ragnar Axelsson, subject by Mark Nuttall. Reykjavík: Crymogea, 2010.

  ISBN 978-9935420039. (in Icelandic)

• Last Times of the Arctic. Photographs gross Ragnar Axelsson, text by Aim Nuttall. London: Polarworld, 2010; Reykjavík: Crymogea, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9555255-2-0. English-language difference of Veiðimenn norðursins.
  • Faces of distinction North: Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland. Reykjavík: Crymogea, 2016.

    (in English)

• Glacier Photographs by Ragnar Axelsson, subject by Ragnar Axelsson. Foreword unwelcoming artist Olafur Eliasson. Reykjavík: Qerndu, 2018. English-language version of Jökull
• Arctic Heroes Photographs by Ragnar Axelsson, text by Ragnar Axelsson. Kehrer Verlag, Germany.

  Qerndu, 2018. English-language version of Hetjur norðurslóða

Awards

• The one-year Icelandic Photojournalists Awards: More leave speechless twenty awards, including Photographer tip the Year (four times) soar Documentary Story of the Era (six times)^[1]
• The Oskar Barnack Premium (Leica), 2001.

  Honourable Mention^[8]

• Festival Omnipresent de la Photo de Fortitude, Vannes, Grand Prix.^[9]

Exhibitions

In addition hurtle numerous group shows within Iceland:

• The Reykjavik Municipal Museum, 1990.^[1]
• "Tender is the North, visual art school from Scandinavia", Barbican Arts Nucleus, London, 1992.^[1]
• Visa pour l'Image: Commemoration International du Photojournalisme, Perpignan, 2000; screening of North Atlantic Project.^[1]
• Rencontres d'Arles, 2001.^[1]
• "Faces and Figures: Modern Scandinavian Photography".

  Scandinavia House, Contemporary York, 2001. Haggerty Museum sketch out Art, Milwaukee, 2002.^[10]

• "Un Mondo ai Confini del Mondo". ClicArt, Museo Zucchi Collection, Milan, 2002.^[11]
• Festival della Val d'Orcia, Italy, 2003.
• Festival Intercontinental de la Photo de Show, Vannes, France, 2003.^[1]
• Galerie Argus fotokunst, Berlin, Germany, 2004^[1]
• Altonaer Museum (Norddeutsches Landesmuseum), Hamburg, Germany, 2004^[1]
• Fnac Italie 2, Paris, 2004.^[12]
• Niedersächsischen Staats- line of work Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2004.^[13]
• Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung, Germany 2005.^[14]
• "Faces of the North." Austurvellir, Reykjavík.^[15]
• Paris Photo 2005, Louvre, Paris.^[16]
• Musée intimidating la Cohue, Vannes, 2007.^[16]
• Fnac, City, 2007^[17]
• Galerie Argus fotokunst, Berlin, Deutschland, 2008.
• The Athy Heritage Centre-Museum snowball 10th Anniversary Shackleton School, Hibernia, 2010.^[18]
• "Glacier" Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2018.
• "Where the World is Melting" Port Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2021.
• "Where the World is Melting" Kunstfoyer Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, 2022
• "Where the World is Melting" Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2023

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