The last two photos I found from 2020 that I liked were these two photos of ravens flying over the Grafarvogur neighbourhood in Reykjavík. They’re a bit blurry because keeping up with ravens flying at full speed is a bit tricky, but I like them nonetheless.

A black and white photo of a raven flying. A bit blurry.Another black and white photo of a raven flying. Everything’s a bit blurry.

One of the projects I did in 2020 was to document my mother’s radio documentary on the discovery of the gravesite of the poet Páll Ólafsson, which had been lost since 1918.

This was my favourite of the bunch

Two people stand in a cemetary filed with trees and the shadows of their branches.

We’re up to 2020 in the history of my amateur photography and I’ll be honest: it was rough. Every year since has been better but it’s been bloody rough and I’ve had less time for photography since

But Icelandic horses and greylag geese do make things a bit better

We see an Icelandic horse through a break between the trees. The colours are bright and vivid as the colour profile replicates slides-style film emulsion.We see a greylag goose eating grass. The colours are bright and vivid as the colour profile replicates slides-style film emulsion.

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My last attempt at serious photography in Montréal was in the middle of the lockdown. I went around and took pictures of all of the closed storefronts and restaurants, trying somehow to capture the enormity of the situation in some way

It doesn’t really work but I had to try.

A sign is taped to the front of this store saying that it’s temporarily closed to protect the health of the customers.This sign says that they’re opening again next week after making some changes. And that they’re adding delivery.This bar has a sign that says they’re closed because of the government order.

After a year where my mother had had a serious health scare (now fine), racists locked up the immigration process in Quebec, and a looming international move, my photography practice began to look less important

Then, in early 2020, COVID made everything more complicated

The camera focuses on the snow and the person walking under the bridge ahead of us is out of focus.

I visited Iceland that Christmas. Not just to celebrate the holiday but also to prepare my move back home. Everything had come together to show me that I should return. The world was turning even before the plague hit.

A tree filled with starlings.The view from my grandmother’s window on New Year’s Eve. Her neighbour stands outside, watching the fireworks.

We’re up to autumn 2019 in the history of my amateur photography and none of us had any idea of what was around the corner.

Autumn in Montréal was as colourful as ever.

The sun sets on an autumnal Parc Jarry. The trees cast impossibly long shadows and we see people dot the park.A person walks their dog. A squirrel hunts for food. Trees cast shadows. Autumn in the park.

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Finally, I always enjoy pictures where people look more like abstract shadowy or silhouette-y presences than actual people.

A kid plays in the sand.Tourists stand on a cliff and stare out to sea.In the distance, two people are walking down a sandy beach. At least, it’s as sandy as beaches get in Iceland, which is quite rocky.

Double-decker buses always feel a bit out of place in Iceland, but apparently they’re used for sightseeing tours in some places.

A red double-decker bus is parked in the middle of a row of farm buildings.

In the summer 2019, we went on a bit of a tour of the lighthouses of the Reykjanes peninsula.

Kids play in one of Iceland’s few white sand beaches. There is a lighthouse behind them and in the distance, through the haze, we can see Snæfellsjökull.We’re taking photographs by a very orange lighthouse.

We’re into spring 2019 with this triptych of spring sports in Parc Jarry. These images don’t work that well, IMO, on their own but together they illustrate that period in the park quite well.

Somebody athletic is flying a large kite as the sun sets in Parc Jarry.Some guys run, playing some sportsball kind of thing, in Parc Jarry as the sun setsSportsball accomplished, the guys regroup.

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Hopefully Tuesday will be less groggy and grumpy than Monday.

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