Útlendigur
Sarah Flynn
PhotoIreland
English
Designed by Ángel Luis González Fernández.
Softcover
Edition of 200
36 pages
148 × 210 mm
2017
ISBN Not Available
The emergence of the tourist gaze was largely brought into being by the invention of the camera. The newly invented medium adopted the aesthetics of 19th Century approaches to landscape painting; an emphasis on the picturesque and the sublime, a tradition still today adhered to by tourists boards worldwide. The Icelandic tourist board is no exception. Iceland is presented as ‘out of the ordinary’: a pure and untouched terrain sculpted over the aeons by natural forces and illuminated by fantastical light displays. Útlendingur provides a critique of this idealised version of Iceland from the point of view of an outsider. It focuses on the sights of the everyday and seeks to capture the ordinary events within the landscape that don’t conform to the mythic narrative. The result is a playful and affectionate subversion of familiar motifs and an alternative representation of Iceland which goes beyond the clichéd images often used as promotional material in tourist brochures and in the mainstream media.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/tlp-editions/products/utlendigur-sarah-flynn)
About the Artist
Sarah Flynn is an award winning photographer based in Dublin, Ireland. In 2016 she completed her studies and holds a BA (Hons) in Photography from the Dublin Institute of Technology. Flynn’s most recent works investigate contemporary Irish sociopolitical issues relating to sustainability, biodiversity, climate change, globalisation and technology, through which the viewer is invited to critically engage with. In 2015 she won ‘Photographer of the Year’ in the DIT Media and Art Awards.
(source: https://www.lensculture.com/sarah-flynn)
About the Series
TLP Editions are an ongoing collection of contemporary photographic projects in the form of accessible and inexpensive publications by PhotoIreland. These A5 sized booklets present a standard format throughout the series, with 36 pages each, a cover with a text block of under 140 words that introduces the project, and the title and the artist name only available on the contra cover. The project creates a node of opportunities as it allows photographers to enter the publishing arena, while facilitating access to contemporary artistic practices to the general public.
(source: https://www.100archive.com/projects/tlp-editions)
About the Publisher
Founded in 2009, PhotoIreland was conceived as an organisation that would stimulate a dialogue around Photography in Ireland by developing a varied array of initiatives and events with a strong participative approach.
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