Ragnar Axelsson
Ragnar Axelsson, who also calls himself RAX, is a photographer born in Iceland in 1958.
He has been a staff photographer of Morgunblaðið (Iceland's biggest newspaper) since 1976.
Ragnar has done work and stories for various agencies and magazines, shooting in Iceland, the Faroes, Greenland, Indonesia, Scandinavia, and Siberia.
Ragnar has had photographs and picture essays published in Life, National Geographic, Le Figaro, Stern, La Vanguardia, Time, and elsewhere.
Ragnar's book Andlit norðursins (2004; English edition Faces of the North 2005) is a collection of his black and white photographs of vanishing ways of life in Iceland, the Faroes and Greenland taken over a period of fifteen years.
Books
* The Golden Circle. Photographs by Páll Stefánsson, Ragnar Axelsson and Mats Wibe-Lund. Reykjavík: Iceland Review, 1989.
* Reykjavik. Reykjavík: Hagall, c 1991. ISBN 9979-81600-7. A book in color, text in Icelandic and English.
* Faces and figures: Contemporary Scandinavian photography. New York: American Scandinavian Foundation, 2001. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Scandinavia House, The Nordic Center in America, Apríl–July 2001, and elsewhere.
* (Icelandic) Ólafsson, Guðmundur Páll. Um víðerni Snæfells. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2003. ISBN 9979-32421-X. This book, whose title is translatable as "Through the vastness near Snæfell" (i.e. the Snæfell volcano northeast of Vatnajökull), documents an area going underwater because of the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project, and has photographs by Axelsson and also Friðþjófur Helgason and Jóhann Ísberg.
* (Icelandic) Andlit norðursins: Ísland, Færeyjar, Grænland. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2004. ISBN 9979-3-2561-5.
o (English) Faces of the North: Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2005. ISBN 9979-3-2592-5. English translation.
o (French) Visages du nord: Islande, Féroé, Groenland. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2005. ISBN 9979-32593-3. French translation.
o (German) Die Seele des Nordens. Island, Färöer, Grönland. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2005. ISBN 9979-32561-5, ISBN 9979-32594-1. German translation.
Awards
* The annual Icelandic Photojournalists Awards: More than twenty awards, including Photographer of the Year (four times) and Documentary Story of the Year (six times)
* The Oskar Barnack Prize (Leica), 2001. Honourable Mention
* Festival International de la Photo de Mer, Vannes, Grand Prix.
Exhibitions
In addition to numerous group shows within Iceland:
* The Reykjavik Municipal Museum, 1990.
* "Tender is the North, visual arts from Scandinavia", Barbican Arts Centre, London, 1992.
* Visa pour l'Image: Festival International du Photojournalisme, Perpignan, 2000; screening of North Atlantic Project.
* Rencontres d'Arles, 2001.
* "Faces and Figures: Contemporary Scandinavian Photography". Scandinavia House, 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 de Mer, Vannes, France, 2003.
* Galerie Argus 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, Germany 2005.
* "Faces of the North." Austurvellir, Reykjavík.
* Paris Photo 2005, Louvre, Paris.
* Musée de la Cohue, Vannes, 2007.
* Fnac, Milan, 2007
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