Discovering Iceland

In April 2022, about two months before the birth of my son, I left for a nine-day photographic journey in southern Iceland. At this time of the year, the island is in an in-between state: the snow is melting and the northern lights are gone, puffins are just starting to arrive, while flowers and summer vegetation have not yet coloured the landscape. In other words, the high season has yet to begin and it is possible to discover the country without bumping into tourist buses at every stop.

Rather than opting for a marathon around the island, I decided to stay on the south coast, slowly moving from west to east between Keflavik and Höfn. I wanted to take the time to immerse myself in the locations, to explore, to hike, to improvise, to hang out, or to change my plan depending on the weather conditions. This slow progression towards the east of the country has something of an initiatory journey. As civilization becomes scarcer, strange landscapes follow one another: geothermal activity zones, lava fields, high waterfalls, black sand deserts, endless expanses of moss, gigantic glaciers and numerous icebergs... The arrival in Höfn is the climax of the trip with the impressive Vestrahorn mountains and the sublime black sand beach Stokksnes.

I came back with more than 3200 pictures taken along the 533 km that separate Keflavik from Höfn. Here is a small selection, with a mix of emblematic places and more personal compositions.

June 2022

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