one good news!!!
i will have an exhibition, supported by Arts Council England, in London presenting the work done here in Skagastrond.
Mid-may until mid june at TeaSmith Gallery, Spitafield, London
check my site!more news to come!
http://www.leonardiphoto.com

(another good news: while walking around i found my long lost lens cap for my hasselblad...it must have been buried under snow for weeks, what a lucky encounter!)

The wind has changed. Before it was a freezing wind coming from the north, from the artic. now it comes from southeast and pushes from the sea into town. Waves are really high, in the image above you can see them, with the abandoned shrimp factory in the background.
The wind is very strong. Last night the rain has melted most of the snow, only mountains of ice are left in some parts of town but luckily the ground is not so slippery anymore...anyway, the wind is so strong i nearly fell over a couple of time today.
The days have become much much longer...after the infamous 10-days storm i suddenly realise that the sun was somewhere there high beneath the clouds. Spring is coming. The weather keeps changing...wind with snow then a sunny wind but still very windy!
I am trying to continue walking in the countryside to photograph the remaining houses and sheds, aware that i have only 3 weeks left here and with a couple of planned trips i will have little time left.
Hopefully this week i will finally gain access to the empty fish factories.
Today Juruate did an "art therapy" class at NES

yesterday i failed my last chance to win Skagastrond's pub quiz, therefore losing my last chance of glory in this town! i miserably failed on questions related to british football...will i be allowed back in the UK??

finally the snow has melted and i can open my window again!
the weather is so unpredictable and changes so swiftly that is difficult to plan what to photograph during the day...

olafia on tv!

Today television Channel 2 (one of the 3 icelandic tv channels) came to NES artists studio to interview Olafia and check out our work.
i was glad they did not ask me questions, as i am unable to talk without swearing!
today i have continued to photograph the little houses abandoned inland, but i feel this project is coming to an end as i have gone as far as i can possibly walk.
so i am experimenting with different ideas, and after a month it is a bit diffcult: i miss London, and it is difficult to find new subjects in a such small place.
yesterday i had a chance meeting with Sigurjon, the fishermen who has promosed to take me out at sea. Photographing fishermen and the empty fishing factories seems to take an incredible long time to organise in such a small town...but hopefully insisting i will get results!

toward the lighthouse (part 3)

today i finally made it to the lighthouse. Borrowing Olafia's car, Anna drove up to the lighthouse which is 26 km from Skagastrond.
The fields were long plains of snow, few working farms scattered along. Near the lighthouse there were 4-5 empty houses and barns, i couldn't reach 2 of them due to the high snow which made it impossible to photograph. But i did manage to photograph 3...before tragedy struck! my lightmeter broke!
So the trip was cut short (Thanks Anna for consoling me while i was having a moment of lightmeter -related hysterism) but i have now managed to fix the lightmeter, and as soon as the snow melts i shall be heading out on my biccycle to photograph more!
In the faternoon i walked up and down the harbour, got to photograph lots of fish...fish to me is that white thing inside boxes in the frozen food aisle in Asda. Here ig yellow containers were filled with sea monsters. fishermen were a bit annoyed by my presence and only two allowed me to photograph them.

new month, new artists

new month, new artists here at NES.

yesterday after a week of snowstorm it was suddenly very sunny.Warm. Well, it wasn't warm, maybe about 0-2 degrees celsius. But after a week or more of storm it was so nice to see the sun.
Of course my idea of photographing people in the snowstorm has gone out of the window!