CONDITIONS
Here are some snaps from the Los Angeles show “Work In Progress” at Blythe Projects in Culver City, held in collaboration with MOCA Los Angeles and The Masses.
The show ran from January 23rd to February 25th 2010 and featured work, besides my own, by artists John Andolsek and Mark Schoening in addition to new work by sculptor Anthony James, paintings by multidisciplinary artist JK5 and video art by filmmaker and Masses founder Matt Amato.
My section consisted of images from my ongoing photographic project “CONDITIONS” as well as footage from an unfinished short film, “COME TO HARM” which will premiere in 2011.
Click here for more info on CONDITIONS:
www.blytheprojects.net/borkur
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RECYCLE OR DIE
The superb Icelandic clothing label AFTUR just launched a new website:
www.aftur.is
They asked me to dig up a shoot I did with them in 2003 that I had forgotten about.
So, in the spirit of recycling - which is what AFTUR is all about - here are a few images from our shoot together, old to me and new to some.
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A SELEKZION SELECTION.
A selection of images from the 2011 spring/summer collection for Nikita Selekzion, shot in Mexico last May. While we were shooting, we witnessed - appropriately enough - THE brightest shooting star I’ve ever seen. Which scared the shit out of me, since the beach we were on sits squat in the middle of the crater created by the nasty asteroid that killed all them dinosaurs. So, we nearly went extinct for these pictures. I hope you can appreciate that.
All clothing by Nikita. Hair & makeup by Steinunn Þórðar. Models: Andrea, Gabby & Isabelle. Photographic assistant: Charlie Kelly. Post production by Jamie Farquharson.
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NEON NOIR
Here’s a shoot I did in Iceland earlier this year in collaboration with the super talented Ellen Lofts and Steinunn Thordardottir. The models are Tinna Bergs and Maria Birta.
Click here for the story in Contributor Magazine.
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“FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING RETARDS!”
I just dug up these images I shot in 2006. Silvia Night epitomized all that was honest and pure about the excess and narcissism of the Icelandic boom years, culminating in her appearance on her country's behalf at the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens. I think of her a lot these days.
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