Why criss-cross Iceland in all directions, in all seasons, when the
world is so vast?
For the inner exile offered by this walk on the heights. For the first
snows that upset the landscape and teleport us into a charcoal drawing.
For the spring which will bring back with the birds a forgotten
sweetness. For the summer with days without night. For the rare men and
women I have been lucky enough to meet. For the infinite range of
emotions aroused by these boreal steppes. For the space, the freedom,
the omnipresence of natural forces, which help to breathe deeper.
To find the oldest living All Black in a hospice in Auckland, to share a
vintage wine with Jim Harrison in his house in Montana, to draw the
portrait of penguins in Antarctica, to cross the rivers of Iceland on
foot...
Photographer, journalist, author and speaker, Olivier Joly has always
let his steps guide him towards emotions and encounters. Surveyor of
large geographical spaces and human intimacy, he saw over time his
intimate compass pointing to the cold and windy ends of the world. This
is how he found his promised land. Twenty trips and a year on the spot
have made him one of Iceland's most knowledgeable connoisseurs.
After the success of his book Four Seasons in Iceland, he now looks at
it in black and white.
