Icelandic Photography

ÓMAR SVERRISSON "Balloon Series No 3" (2018). Edition: 30+2 AP. Signed and numbered. Certificate of Authenticity included. Hahnemühle Rag 308 g. Available in 2 sizes. Frame: Nielsen Quadrum Oak 50x40. Museum glass UV 70%.

Ómar Sverrisson (b. 1977) is a freelance photographer and visual artist living and working in Reykjavik, Iceland. His work spans from film design and photographic work for Icelandic music bands to editorial and visual advertising content for a number of newspapers and popular magazines in Denmark and Iceland. Omar Sverisson’s portraits series Reykjavik portraits enjoy cult status among the Scandinavian creative scene. Also, he has portrayed Danish fashion designer Henrik Vibskov and many other creatives while he lived in Denmark. As a street photographer in Reykjavik his reputation is widely respectable.

Omar Sverisson’s portrait in Balloon Series No 3 depicts internationally recognised Icelandic poet Ármann Reynisson. Reynisson was one of the most influential pioneers on the Icelandic financial scene in the nineties before he became a full-time writer. He has now published eighteen volumes of vignettes and has introduced a new genre to Icelandic literature.

Omar Sverisson’s Balloon Series has been exhibited in Helsinki and at the touring Nordic Village expose at Pelt Fotofestival 2021 in Belgium.

http://omar.this.is/

The work can be explored in our Virtual Art Gallery: https://visit.virtualartgallery.com/helphoto-selected-darlings