Faces of the North All Photography Books Embodying photography’s intrinsic power

Embodying photography’s intrinsic power

The resulting prints of History’s Shadow make the invisible visible

Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War

models or musicians

often recent immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan

Faces of the North All Photography Books Embodying photography’s intrinsic powerSecond printing from 2006 in fine condition. Raised on an isolated farm in southern Iceland, Ragnar Axelsson (born 1958) became captivated early on by the brutal beauty of the North Atlantic and the delicate interactions between its inhabitants and their environment. Born of that fascination, Faces of the North, first published in a small print run in 2004, established Axelsson as one of the leading documentary photographers of our time. It contained