{"id":13327,"date":"2025-01-13T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=13327"},"modified":"2025-02-13T15:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T15:07:06","slug":"artist-talk-petur-thomsen-icelandic-photo-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/artist-talk-petur-thomsen-icelandic-photo-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Talk \u2013 P\u00e9tur Thomsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday January 25th at 4 p.m.<\/strong>, artist\u00a0<strong>P\u00e9tur Thomsen<\/strong>\u00a0will welcome guests at the museum for a talk about the exhibition\u00a0<em>Settlement<\/em>, featuring works from his ongoing series of the same name, but this is the first time that the artist presents the works at an exhibition bearing that title. Please note that the event, which is part of the programme of the Icelandic Photo Festival 2025, will be in Icelandic and English.<\/p>\n<p><em>Settlement <\/em>is a long-term photography project by P\u00e9tur Thomsen, where he investigates land use and how humans impact nature. P\u00e9tur photographs mines, roads, lava fields, woods, creeks and cultivated land in the darkness, using a flash to define the subject. Thus, the photos become a testament to man\u2019s transformation of nature, which has in the last centuries been so extensive that many believe that mankind has brought about a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene: a period that is marked by climate change and global warming, among other phenomena.<\/p>\n<p><em>P\u00e9tur Thomsen <\/em><em>(b. 1973) finished an MFA in photography from \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de la photographie in Arles, France, in 2004. <\/em><em>Before that, he studied French, art history and archeaology at Universit\u00e9 Paul Val\u00e9ry in Montpellier and art photography at \u00c9cole sup\u00e9rieure des m\u00e9tiers artistiques in the same city. P\u00e9tur has received various awards and recognitions, including, for example, the LVMH Corporation prize in 2004, awarded to a young artist for the 10<sup>th<\/sup> time. He was also selected by the Mus\u00e9e de L\u2019\u00c9lys\u00e9e in Lausanne as one of the 50 photographers likely to make waves in future photography history, in the project reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday January 25th at 4 p.m., artist\u00a0P\u00e9tur Thomsen\u00a0will welcome guests at the museum for a talk about the exhibition\u00a0Settlement, featuring works from his ongoing series of the same name, but this is the first time that the artist presents the works at an exhibition bearing that title. Please note that the event, which is part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13159,"menu_order":28,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-13327","event","type-event","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/13327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/13327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13462,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/13327\/revisions\/13462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}