Past
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The Glorious World
Chungmu Arts Center, Seoul 22 Apr - 24 Aug 2025 Climate Change Photo Project 2025 Participating artists: Chris Jordan Marco Gaiotti Nick Hannes Ragnar Axelsson Read more -
At the Edge of the World
The Photographers' Gallery, London 22 Nov 2024 - 22 Jan 2025 For over four decades, Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson (b. 1958) has journeyed to the northernmost reaches of the world, capturing the stark beauty and resilient lives of those living in the Arctic. This exhibition draws from multiple bodies of work to present Axelsson’s deeply committed documentation of these remote landscapes... Read more -
Arctic Heroes
Leica Gallery, Düsseldorf 10 Nov 2023 - 29 Feb 2024 Ragnar Axelsson, a renowned nature and reportage photographer, is known for his outstanding work in the most remote regions of the Arctic. He has been documenting the lives of people, animals and the breathtaking landscapes of Greenland, Iceland and Siberia for over 40 years. With a Leica camera in his... Read more -
Prix Pictet: Human
The global award for photography and sustainability 29 Sep 2023 - 20 Apr 2025 In their own unique way, each of the shortlisted photographers explores our shared humanity and the vast spectrum of interactions with the world. Their work evaluates our role as stewards of the planet and highlights the critical issue of global sustainability — the central concern of the Prix Pictet since... Read more -
Where the World is Melting
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 17 Mar - 18 Jun 2023 This first retrospective of Axelsson’s impressive black-and-white photographs makes the extraordinary relationships between people, animals, and places in the Arctic and their extreme environment visible—relationships that are subject to profound and complex changes due to unprecedented climate change. Axelsson’s information comes from first-hand accounts by local people. Undeterred by the... Read more -
Currency: Photography Beyond Capture
Hamburg Triennial of Photography 20 May - 18 Sep 2022 The exhibition approaches photographs as contextual frames for narrative invention rather than as documents of binding truth or essence. Currency considers how knowledge is sought and reimagined through conceptual approaches to the photographic medium. The exhibition weaves modes of experimental capture, appearance, multisensory evocation, archival and documentative practice. Staging works... Read more -
Where the World is Melting
Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung, Munich 15 Dec 2021 - 18 Apr 2022 For over 40 years, Ragnar Axelsson (RAX, b. 1958) has photographed people, animals, and landscapes in the most remote regions of Greenland, Iceland, and Siberia. In simple black and white photos, he captures the elementary human experience in nature on the edge of the habitable world. RAX highlights the extraordinary... Read more -
Where the World is Melting
Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús 30 Jan - 9 May 2021 The exhibition Where the World is Melting presents works selected from the series Faces of the North, Glacier, Hunters and Arctic Heroes . Gathered together at a pivotal moment, the photographs shed light on the changes that are taking place in the physical and traditional realities of the North. In... Read more -
Siku ajorpoq — the ice is no good
Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen 2 Nov 2019 - 8 Mar 2020 Nordatlantens Brygge – The North Atlantic House – is located in the centre of the old part of Copenhagen. The building was founded in 1767 and for more than 200 years was the busy centre of trade between Denmark and the North Atlantic Zone. From the harbour, ships departed for... Read more -
Glacier
Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík 30 Oct - 30 Nov 2018 2018: Ásmundarsalur — Reykjavík, Iceland 2018: House of Sweden — Washington, D.C., USA 2019: National Nordic Museum —Seattle, USA Glacier is an ode to Iceland’s glaciers by renowned documentary photographer, Ragnar Axelsson. Having grown up near the glaciers and flown his plane over them countless times since, Axelsson has a... Read more
