User:Kristjanlogason

Kristjan Logason Photographer

Born 1963 in Kopavogur Iceland Had his first solo exhibition in Neskaupstaður east Iceland in 1982.

His interest in Photography led him to become the chairman of Hugmynd'81 camera club in Reykjavik 1988 - 1989 where he had been member since 1983.

He started his professional photography carrier 1 of Mai 1989 when he went to work for a local newspaper Dagur in Akureyri, North Iceland 1991 he moved to Reykjavik and pursued a carrier as a freelance media photographer. In 1992 he went to study Photography in Vasa Vuxengymnasium in Gothenburg Sweden where he was the first to graduate in 1994 with digital photography as main subject of his final exam.

Beside being a professional advertising photographer kristjan kept the photography world often puzzeld by his experiments in this new technology called Digital art more often than not combined with his writing and poetry. His "Photograpahy" often border lined what could be called photography or collage and questioned the status of this new medium and its effects on Photograpy. Not sure how to take his art, discussions where made, and he even refused to exhibit amongst photographers as this medium was so new that it was not thought of as photography per se. When he showed his memoir images (setja inn ártal) nobody questioned any more that this was photography because nobody new it had been made with scanner and no camera involved in the process.

Kristjan managed to bring some of this experiments of his into the advertising world even though selling such an idea was not always easy

Awards
Impact Kristjans images have made its mark on Icelandic advertising landscape and where in 2006 selected to be amongst the best advertising images ever to be made in Iceland in an article written about the advertising world in Iceland.

First award for image taken on his third film in 1981 95 Epica - European advertising awards 96 Epica - European advertising awards 97 Kopavogur Artist grant 98 AAA - Icelandic advertising awards 2015 "BIG EAD award of the year for creating his own wikipedia entry.."

Exhibitions
82 Neskaupstaður, Iceland

90 Reykjavik, Iceland

92 Reykjavik, Iceland

94 Reykjavik, Iceland

95 Internet

97 Reykjavik, Iceland

00 Reykjavik, Iceland

02 Florence, Italy

12 Hemnsberg, Norway

Numerous group shows within Iceland and in other countries

coop exhibitions with the Icelandic press photographers association

coop exhibitions with the Icelandic Proffessional Photographers association

Coop with Gallery [Skruggusteinn]

Books
Kristjans Images have appeared in numerous books

Text book (finna heitið á bókinni

Slóð / trail - book of poetry and pictures ( original silver gelatin prints ) handmade in one example that has a rule to travel and be no mans possession