Teo Halvorsen photographs quiet places over long stretches of time. He goes back to the same coast, valley, or ridge for years, and makes a series only when the place has shown him something new.
Nine series, one slow way of looking.
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Nine photographs · 2021 to 2026
SC 01 The book · Northline Editions, 2025
Black Sand
Three winters on the south and east coasts of Iceland, where the beaches are black and the light changes every ten minutes. The series became my first book.
- Camera
- Medium format digital, 100 MP
- Lenses
- 32 mm, 64 mm, 110 mm
- Place
- South and east coasts, Iceland
- Made
- Three winters, 2023 to 2025
On waiting
Most of my work is waiting. I walk to the same place before dawn, set up the tripod, and watch the light do nothing for an hour. Then, for four minutes, the cloud lifts off the ridge, or the tide pulls back off the black sand, and the place shows its real face.
I have learned not to chase that moment. I go back the next day, and the day after, until I know the place well enough to be standing in the right spot when it happens.
Exhibition
Black Sand opens at Galleri Nordkant.
- Days
- 30
- Hours
- 18
- Minutes
- 44
- Seconds
- 11
Black Sand was shown at Galleri Nordkant this winter. The prints from the show are in the shop.
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Black Sand, No. 1
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After Dark, No. 3
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Fog Season, No. 1
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What the reviewers wrote.
Black Sand · Northline Editions, 2025-
5 out of 5 stars
Patient, and quietly astonishing.
The Quiet Earth Review Hanne Solberg -
5 out of 5 stars
The best landscape book of the year.
Forty-two plates and not one of them shouts. You turn the pages slowly, the way the tide comes in.
Terrain Quarterly Oskar Brandt -
4.5 out of 5 stars
Black sand, gray sky, and somehow every color.
Mosslight Magazine Ines Marlow -
4 out of 5 stars
A book about waiting that is never slow.
Halvorsen spent three winters on two hundred kilometers of coast, and the patience shows in every frame.
Fjellvind Journal Petra Lunde
