Friðrik Örn│10.000 – days with a camera

Reykjavík Museum of Photography

The title of the show is a reference to the 27 years (approximately 10,000 days) since Friðrik Örn acquired his first camera, at the age of eight. The pictures in the show span that entire period, to the present day. 

The exhibition is reminiscent of a huge cuttings album, where the presentation is far from conventional. 

Diversity characterises the photographs, in which a variety of methods and styles are used. In this sense the exhibition is reminiscent of a huge cuttings album, where the presentation is far from conventional. Polaroids, videos, cuttings, diaries, photo-wallpaper and super-size prints are among the exhibits, together with some of the photographer’s cameras. A large number of photos are included in the show, which spans a long career, showing huge contrasts in subjects, as well as the photographer’s development as an artist.

Friðrik Örn graduated in 1994 from the Brooks Institute, California, with a BA in photography, and has been a professional photographer since 1991. He has worked in commercial photography, and been a photographer on a number of films, such as 101 Reykjavík and Beowulf, as well as working in theatre, TV and with artists. Since he graduated he has participated in exhibitions and held one-man shows, both in Iceland and abroad. 

Friðrik Örn│10.000 – days with a cam­era

The exhibition 10,000 by photographer Friðrik Örn will be opened at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography on February 18th 2006.

Friðrik Örn│10.000 – days with a camera