The Cold Coast

Iceland 2024 8 frames

Eleven days driving the ring road in shoulder season, when the tour buses are gone and the mountains keep disappearing into their own weather. Made on a 4x5 field camera and a beat-up Mamiya 7.

A black-sand valley with a single ribbon of river under flat grey light

A waterfall pouring off a moss-green cliff into mist

A lone red-roofed farmhouse beneath an enormous snow-streaked mountain

Glacial ice stranded on black volcanic sand at dusk

Steam rising from a geothermal field into a slate-coloured sky

A narrow fjord road vanishing into fog between two dark headlands

A flock of birds wheeling over a grey sea below basalt cliffs

Snow blowing across an empty highland pass at golden hour