I'm a freelance photographer with +30 years experience from the Faroe Islands, an archipelago located between Scotland, Norway and Iceland, currently living in Aarhus, Denmark.
I have a master's degree in Documentary Photography from Høgskulen i Volda, Norway (2020). I studied under the supervision of Stuart Franklin, Magnum photographer and ex Magnum Photos president, and Anders Nilsen, photojournalist and lecturer at Høyskolen Kristiania in Oslo.
I earned my bachelor's degree in Online Journalism at Danish School of Journalism, Aarhus, Denmark (2013), and I have worked for more than 20 years in the field of journalism as reporter and Online Editor at Faroese Broadcasting Corporation.
For two semesters, I have been employed as visiting professor and lecturer at the Faculty of News Media and Journalism at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, the highest ranked university in Poland since 2000.
On a daily basis, I am working as General Manager and Head of Human Resources for the National Church in Denmark and also as contracted photographer for The Norwegian News Agency, NTB.
Currently, I am working on a documentary photography project about foreign women married to men in the Faroe Islands which (hopefully) will be published in 2023-2024.
Books
2020: Einsamalla várið (Faroese language)
Documentary photo book about the consequences from COVID-19 in the Faroe Islands. The book is available from the Faroese publisher on this link: Einsamalla várið | Sprotin.
2020: Kirkjuklæði (contributing photographer)
2014: Fjálgasta friðskjól á foldum (contributing photographer)
2011: Valið og valdið (contributing photographer)
1990: Aftur og fram 89/90 (contributing photographer)
Awards
2017: Documentary Photo of The Year
Award winner in the official photo documentary project "365: One year in pictures" in the Faroe Islands
2013: Press Photo of The Year
Award winner, Press Photo of The Year 2013 in Faroe Islands
Exhibitions
2021: Street Level Photoworks/COP26, Scotland
Commissioned work for UN's Climate Change Conference (COP26) when the meeting was held in Glasgow, Scotland, from 31 Oct. to 12 Nov.
2018: Várframsýningin, Listasavn Føroya, Faroe Islands
The Art Society’s annual spring exhibition which aims to display the best of Faroese pictorial art, to raise the standard and to act as a challenge for the artists
2018: Listasafn Reykjanesbæjar (Duus Museum), Iceland
A combined and dual exhibition with 365 photographs (one year) from the two countries Faroe Islands and Iceland
2017: "365: One year in pictures", Faroe Islands
Documentary project with one picture for each day of the year