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Name: Thorvaldur Örn Kristmundsson

Website:  www.thorvaldurorn.com
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Iceland

Occupation:


Artist funding from Culture office in Minestry of Foreign Affairs and Promote Iceland Culture 2012

Artist funding from The association of Icelandic visual artists and the Icelandic Ministry of Culture for the Deep Iceland, Ashfall- the fifth season 2011

Photographer news/photo documentary –. 2008-2012


Photographer and picture desk manager, Morgunbladid Newspaper Iceland, 2004-2007

Photographer  The Daily Newspaper Iceland, 1991-2003

Chairmain of the Icelandic Photojournalist Association from 1994 -2006


Chairmain of the Scandinavian Photojournalist Association 2003

Board member in Icelandic Journalist Union 2002-2009

Awards:


Icelandic Press Photo Picture of the year:

News picture of the year Iceland 1997

News picture of the year Iceland 1998

Picture of the year Iceland 1998

National picture of the year 1999

Picture series of the year Iceland 2001

Portrait picture of the year 2003

Promotional picture for the World Press Photo exhibition 1999 from Kosovo


Time/Life published the same series from Kosovo 1999 online

Exhibitions :


Multiple joint/exhibitions in Reykjavik for the last 20 years.

Latest exhibitions :

2006 Exhibition Gerdarsafn Art Museum Kopavogur “ Karahnjukar – The disappearing land”

2007 Curator "History of photography in news" Icelandic Journalist Union

2008 Fotografi Gallery  - Reykjavik  “ Portrait of an eagle “


2009 Reykjavík Arts Festival -The Washerwomen´s Walk –a stroll into history-

2010 Gerdarsafn Art Museum Kopavogur -Nature is Brand

2010 Curator  “Faces of the North” Ragnar Axelsson photographer Kopavogur Art Museum

2010-2011 The KONA Gallery and Photojournalism Center/
San Clemente, California- Nature is Brand

2011 Perspektivet Museum Tromsø Norway - Exhibition Deep Iceland


2012 Copenhagen Photo Festival - Ashfall /The fifth season

2012 Visa Pour l´Image - Perpignan, France

2016 Reykjavík Museum of Photography _ Westfjords -

2016 Reykjavík Arts Festival

2017  Isafjordur Art Museum


Photo contest jury:

2007 Jury member for Norwegian PressPhoto contest

2012 Jury member for Icelandic PressPhoto contes


Scheduled exhibitions:

Copenhagen - Jon Sigurdsson  

Reykjavik - Jon Sigurdsson 

Reykjavik - The poet

Upcoming projects:


Starting project ” Kept from time - storage's and attic in historic buildings 

Starting project “ Pyramid's in landscape “ 

-Starting project “ The poet “ 


-Starting project “ The Wall / Israel Palestine “

Upcoming book projects :


The poets - A modern way of expressing the Icelandic poet in 1900 and before 2013

The Fifth Season - Ashfall 


The Wall / Israel Palestine 

Covered news and assignments for many magazines and newspapers incl,.

El Pais, Rolling Stone Magazine,New York Times, Bild, TIME, Dagbladet, Verdens Gang.

Photo projects incl:

Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel / Palestine, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan


Work published through:

Zuma Press, Reuters, AP, AFP and other various agencies.

Projects for International Aid Organizations:


Action of Churches Together (ACT) in Bosnia Herzegovina 1997

Worked with the International Red Cross Israel / Palestine 1999

Iranian Red Crescent in Tehran, Iran 2001

mail: [email protected]

website:
www.thorvaldurorn.com
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