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WORK EXPERIENCE:

– Staff photographer, Morgunbladid, Iceland''s biggest newspaper,
1976 -

– Work and stories made for various agencies and magazines. Stories
shot in Faroe Islands, Greenland, Indonesia, Scandinavia, Siberia, etc.

PUBLICATIONS:



– Photographs and picture essays published in LIFE, National Geographic,
Le Figaro, Stern, La Vanguardia, TIME, etc.

– The Golden Circle. Photographs
by Páll Stefánsson, Ragnar Axelsson and Mats Wibe-Lund.
Reykjavík: Iceland Review, 1989.

– Reykjavik. A book in color. (Icelandic) (English)

– Faces and figures: Contemporary Scandinavian photography. New
York: American Scandinavian Foundation, 2001.

– Through the vastness near Snæfell by Ólafsson,
Guðmundur Páll has photographs by Axelsson and also Friðþjófur
Helgason and Jóhann Ísberg.

– Faces of the North, book on vanishing lifestyles in the North
Atlantic; Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, due autumn 2004.

AWARDS:

– The Annual Icelandic Photojournalists Awards (Est. 1991): More
that 20 awards, including Photographer of the year, four times, and
Documentary story of the year, six times.

– The Oskar Barnack Award, 2001. Honourable Mention

– Festival Photo de Mare, Vannes, Grand Prix.