WORK EXPERIENCE: – Staff photographer, Morgunbladid, Iceland's biggest newspaper, 1976 - – Work and stories made for various agencies and magazines. Stories shot in Faroe Islands, Greenland, Indonesia, Scandinavia, Siberia, etc.
PUBLICATIONS: – A internationally published book on vanishing lifestyles in the North Atlantic; Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, due autumn 2004. Black-and-white photographs taken during fifteen years. – Reykjavik, 1990. A book in color. – Photographs and picture essays published in LIFE, National Geographic, Le Figaro, Stern, La Vanguardia, TIME, etc.
AWARDS: – The Annual Icelandic Photojournalists Awards (Est. 1991): More that 20 awards, including Photographer of the year, four times, and Documentary story of the year, six times. – The Oskar Barnack Award, 2001. Honourable Mention – Festival Photo de Mare, Vannes, Grand Prix.
EXHIBITIONS: – The Reykjavik Municipal Museum, 1990. – Barbican Centre, London, 1992; Tender is the North, visual arts from Scandinavia. – Visa Pour L'Image, Perpignan, 2000; screening of North Atlantic Project. – Rencontres d'Arles, 2001. – Un Mondo ai Confini del Mondo, Clic Art, Milan, 2002. – Festival of Val d-Orcia, Italy, 2003. – Photo de Mare, Vannes, France, 2003. – Galerie Argus fotokunst, Berlin, Germany2004 – Das Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, Germany, 2004 – Fnac Italie 2, Paris, 2004.