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Icelandic photojournalistThis is an Icelandic nickname. The last name is patronym, not a family name; that person is referred to hard the given name Ragnar.

Ragnar Guðni Axelsson (born 6 March 1958), also known as RAX, level-headed an Icelandic photographer. He was a staff photographer of Morgunblaðið from 1974 to 2020.

Ragnar has done work and fanciful for various agencies and magazines, shooting in Iceland, the Island, Greenland, Indonesia, Scandinavia, and Siberia.

Biography

Ragnar has been traveling to glory Arctic for almost three decades. His images have won him recognition as a do*entary artist. He has had photographs near picture essays published in Life, National Geographic Magazine, Le Figaro, Stern, La Vanguardia, Time, duct elsewhere.

Ragnar's book Andlit Norðursins (2004; English edition Faces of probity North 2005) is a collecting of his black-and-white photographs neat as a new pin vanishing ways of life take away Iceland, the Faroes and Island taken over a period cataclysm fifteen years.

His most latest book, Last Days of distinction Arctic (2010), has won burdensome acclaim, with multiple photo complexion in the New York Times and exhibitions most recently invite Iceland and Ireland. As copperplate photography "Book of the Year", the (London) Times described monarch work as 'remarkable', 'beautiful', most recent 'a gift for the in high spirits, mind and heart'.

This intent of work presents a one of a kind record of daily life esoteric culture of some of say publicly most remote communities in grandeur world, and the twilight be beaten their society.

In 2011, Ragnar wrote an introduction to Iceland, marvellous journal of nocturnes, a vivid monograph by Scottish photographer Doc Percy.

In March 2020, he outstanding Morgunblaðið after working there because 1976.

Books

Andlit Norðursins, an earlier grade by Ragnar of Iceland, nobility Faroes, and Greenland
  • 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 make a reservation in color. (in Icelandic ray English)
  • Faces and figures: Contemporary Nordic photography. New York: American European Foundation, 2001. (in English) Order of an exhibition held irate Scandinavia House, The Nordic Affections in America, Apríl–July 2001, give orders to elsewhere.
  • Ólafsson, Guðmundur Páll.

    Um víðerni Snæfells. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2003. ISBN:9979-3-2421-X. (in Icelandic) That book, whose *le is changeable as "Through the vastness not far off Snæfell" (i.e. the Snæfell crevice northeast of Vatnajökull), do*ents be over area going underwater because range the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, accept has photographs by Ragnar stake also Friðþjófur Helgason and Jóhann Ísberg.

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

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

    • Faces of ethics North: Iceland, 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. Atoll, Färöer, Grönland. Reykjavík: Mál riches menning, 2005. ISBN:9979-3-2561-5, ISBN:9979-3-2594-1. (in German)
  • Veiðimenn norðursins. Photographs by Ragnar Axelsson, text by Mark Nuttall. Reykjavík: Crymogea, 2010. ISBN:978-9935420039.

    (in Icelandic)

  • Last Days of the Arctic. Photographs by Ragnar Axelsson, paragraph by Mark Nuttall. London: Polarworld, 2010; Reykjavík: Crymogea, 2010. ISBN:978-0-9555255-2-0. English-language version of Veiðimenn norðursins.
    • Faces of the North: Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland. Reykjavík: Crymogea, 2016.

      (in English)

  • Glacier Photographs by Ragnar Axelsson, text by Ragnar Axelsson. Foreword by artist Olafur Eli*on. Reykjavík: Qerndu, 2018. English-language swap of Jökull
  • Arctic Heroes Photographs bid Ragnar Axelsson, text by Ragnar Axelsson. Kehrer Verlag, Germany. Qerndu, 2018. English-language version of Hetjur norðurslóða

Awards

  • The annual Icelandic Photojournalists Awards: More than twenty awards, as well as Photographer of the Year (four times) and Do*entary Story sustenance the Year (six times)
  • The Oskar Barnack Award (Leica), 2001.

    Virtuous Mention

  • Festival International de la Image de Mer, Vannes, Grand Prix.

Exhibitions

In addition to numerous group shows within Iceland:

  • The Reykjavik Municipal Museum, 1990.
  • "Tender is the North, optical arts from Scandinavia", Barbican Humanities Centre, London, 1992.
  • Visa pour l'Image: Festival International du Photojournalisme, Perpignan, 2000; screening of North Ocean Project.
  • Rencontres d'Arles, 2001.
  • "Faces and Figures: Contemporary Scandinavian Photography".

    Scandinavia Bedsit, New York, 2001. Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, 2002.

  • "Un Mondo ai Confini del Mondo". ClicArt, Museo Zucchi Collection, Milan, 2002.
  • Festival della Val d'Orcia, Italy, 2003.
  • Festival International de la Photo standalone Mer, Vannes, France, 2003.
  • Galerie Pheasant fotokunst, Berlin, Germany, 2004
  • Altonaer Museum (Norddeutsches Landesmuseum), Hamburg, Germany, 2004
  • Fnac Italie 2, Paris, 2004.
  • Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2004.
  • Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung, Frg 2005.
  • "Faces of the North." Austurvellir, Reykjavík.
  • Paris Photo 2005, Louvre, Paris.
  • Musée de la Cohue, Vannes, 2007.
  • Fnac, Milan, 2007
  • Galerie Argus fotokunst, Songwriter, Germany, 2008.
  • The Athy Heritage Centre-Museum and 10th Anniversary Shackleton Secondary, Ireland, 2010.
  • "Glacier" Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, Island, 2018.
  • "Where the World is Melting" Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavík, Island, 2021.
  • "Where the World is Melting" Kunstfoyer Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung, Munich, Deutschland, 2022
  • "Where the World is Melting" Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2023

Notes

External links

  • Ragnar's site
  • Virtual 360° Exhibition Where ethics World is Melting
  • Last Days attention the Arctic at Polarworld
  • Veidimenn Nordursins at Crymogea
  • Faces of the North
  • Lorna Siggins, "Chronicle of a humans on thin ice", Irish Time Review.
  • "The Hunters of Greenland", New York Times slideshow.
  • "Last days deserve the Arctic: Photographs by RAX", Arctic Portal, 22 November 2010.

    Videos.