“Vetur” means “Winter” in Icelandic – a season during which weather and light can turn into an eye nap, vast open spaces can be transformed into a philosophy of fleeting magic or quiet desolation.
Pictures of Patrick’s Lefrey adopt this duality. Often in a desert -like landscape where the road becomes the thread of life, it detects a path through snobound expansion and glacial silence, which captures both the moments of both transit and penance.
Winters in Iceland can be mercilessly both cold and incredibly beautiful. The rapidly changing weather of winter months and the mild condition transforms this quiet, remote country into a true natural spectacle.
In February 2024, Lefèvre discovered Iceland for the first time. The photographer used unique Icelandic light, with the magical atmosphere of its high contradictions and isolated, snow -covered environment, to create a sensitive reality in his images.
The landscapes are almost like a desert, only with roads in the form of a lifeline. Photos A wide range of iconic and low-covered Icelandic locations-from Lake Cario and volcanic Katla region to dramatic Daytifoss waterfalls and snaphels and reikagen-covered peninsulas.
Nevertheless, Lefèvre postcard avoids realism. His Iceland is not about the spectacle, but about the essence. Each image takes down the landscape to its cool core: staining with fog is a horizon, a single dark stone that is puncturing a white area, or disappearing a strip of the road in light. Vetur.
Iceland’s frozen landscape A simple journey is more than an album or landscape book – images appear in a poetic view story in which each picture can stand on its own as a striking painting. Taking inspiration from the aesthetics of painting, photographs have a painter tenderness, which balances light and tone with minimal accuracy. Their restrained palette and open compositions produce a contemplative position – like attention compared to documentation. The result is a book that invites slowness, reflects the internal landscape as Icelandic region: a search for stilness, simplicity and connection to a fragmented world.
Iceland’s frozen landscape Is Published by Kehar Verlag.
