Iceland Photographer // Árný & Eiríkur

Trees are hard to find in Iceland and there is this ongoing joke here that if you get lost in an Icelandic forrest the only thing you have to do is stand up. But there is a spot in the far east that has a decent amount of trees, so decent in fact that you might even call it a forrest, Hallormsstaðaskógur to be exact.  

And it just so happened that we spent our Easter holiday in said forrest, visiting family and relaxing and enjoying the beautiful scenery. And all this beautiful landscape inspired us to do a "Your Story" session.

And that's were Árný and Eiríkur came in, they braved the cold Icelandic "spring" with us as we wandered through the woods for a few hours. And despite this just being a brief encounter with two complete strangers we think we managed to capture their story pretty well. We at least disproved Eiríkur's statement on him looking like Chandler in every photo ever taken of him (it's a joke from the TV show Friends, if you don't get it, it's ok, Styrmir never does either).

-S&H

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Heiðdís Guðbjörg Gunnarsdóttir

Heiðdís Guðbjörg Gunnarsdóttir is a 21 year old photographer, born and raised in Iceland. If you think all Icelandic photography revolves around landscape you couldn't be more wrong. Nothing gives Heiðdís more joy than photographing people. Her favorite photo subjects are fashion, weddings and portraits but she likes venturing into still life photography. Heiðdís has been shooting with the camera since she was small but serious interest started forming when she was 17 and bought her first "real" camera. She is now finishing a degree in photography from Technical College Reykjavík.