Nökkvi Elíasson
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Nökkvi Elíasson | |
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| Born | 2 December 1966 |
| Nationality | Icelandic |
| Occupation | photographer |
Nökkvi Elíasson (born 2 December 1966) is an Icelandic photographer.
Biography
[edit]Nökkvi began his photography career in the late 1980s, concentrating mostly on black and white images. Much of his work centers around deserted farms and other abandoned buildings in Iceland. Nökkvi's photographs have appeared in books, on CD-covers, and in newspapers in Iceland. In February 2001, he made his first major exhibition at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography with a theme focusing on abandoned farms in Iceland.[1] In 2004, he partnered up with Icelandic writer Aðalsteinn Ásberg Sigurðsson to publish his photographs alongside Sigurðsson's poems, in a work called "Black Sky - Vanishing Iceland".[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Deserted Farms - Exhibition". www.islandia.is. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
- ^ "Iceland's Abandoned Farms: Twenty Years of Photos". Guide to Iceland Now. 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
- ^ "Black Sky – Vanishing Iceland". Dimma (in Icelandic). 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
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