CV
Name: Valdís Thor
E-mail: valdisthor@gmail.com
Education
October 2008
Iðan vocational center
Journeyman certificate in photography
Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Reykjavik vocational school / Reykjavik Trade collage
Graduated as a photography student
Fall 2003-Spring 2006
Hamrahlíð Collage
Social science
Work experience, Internships and more
2007-2008
I was an intern at Morgunblaðið. I studied and worked there as a full time photographer for a year under the guidance of Einar Falur Ingólfsson. The time I spent there thought me a lot and I got to work with some of Icelands finest photographers.
2008-2009
I worked part time for the fashion company KronKron photographing clothes and shoes for their website: www.kron.is/www.kronkron.com
July 2009- August 2010
Music is a huge part of my life and not long ago I worked as a distribution manager for the Icelandic indie label Kimi Records.
Bands that are signed at Kimi Records include Benni Hemm Hemm, Retro Stefson, Seabear and more. I’ve photographed promo pictures for musicians such as Klive, Kimono and Ólafur Arnalds. A series of photographs in collaboration with Ólafur were featured in the New York magazine Self Titled (www.self-titledmag.com) Issue N.o. 6.
September 2010
I currently work for ENNEMM advertising agency as an all around receptionist and a photographer.
I have taken on numerous works for magazines and street papers in Reykjavik. For the english speaking newspaper The Reykjavik Grapevine I did a series of photographs both from Reykjavik Culture night and the Gay Pride parade in 2008. In 2009 I went to the art festival Lunga in the small town of Seyðisfjörður. The series of photos over this crazy weekend ended up in a 10 year aniversary book about the festival.www.grapevine.is
Projects
December 2010
My first exhibition 101 Visits opened in The contemporary art Gallery in Reykjavik. It combined of 101 polaroid/instant pictures that I took of people who came to visit me in my first apartment. Alongside the show I published a book with the photographs in signed and numbered copies of 101.
May 2011
On the 5th of May I opened my second exhibition in Skotið, Reykjavik’s museum of photography. It will be open until the 29 June.
About the show:
In the exhibition II there are photographs of Reykjavik and other places which Valdís took for over a decade. All together there are about 100 photos that are formulated in an original way. The exhibition grasps the audience and makes him participate in the project and see the photo as a tangible object. This arrangement underlines the endless possibilities of the photo. Guests can chance the exhibition by changing the order of the photos. That way the exhibition becomes very exciting and the outcome is never the same, it only depends upon who is the changing the order of the photos. It is challenging and creativity is needed, participation and guts to change the order and see the exhibition in as many ways as possible.
May 2011
In May I was working with the french journalist Maité Darnault. She was doing a 4 page story about the committee of the constitution for the french newspaper Libération. I worked as a photographer on this project. The story appeared in the weekend supplement, Le Mag 28 of May 2011.