Over the past three decades Steve has worked for international advertising and design agencies as a retoucher and more recently as a food photographer.

Steve has had an interest in photography since childhood and is especially drawn to the sea. As a landscape photographer he specialises in long exposure seascapes in black and white.


The Exhibition, Steve describes:

This body of work is a study of the diversity of the Icelandic landscape and coastline from waterfalls popular with tourists to the most remote glacial lakes where you could be the only
visitor all week.

I’ve chosen to present my images in black and white to convey the contrasting and dramatic feel of the stark landscapes.

The majority of the images, where possible and weather permitting, were taken using long exposure techniques. Using exposures of up to 4 minutes adds a luminance to the images.

I have chosen to concentrate this body of work initially to 3 distinct areas that I feel represent the landscape around southern Iceland. For the first part of this journey I based myself in the area around the Southern Iceland town of Vik.

Vik is the most populated area on the south coast and regularly visited by the day trip tourists as the area hosts some of the largest waterfalls in Iceland. The black volcanic beaches and basalt rock formations provide beautiful and dramatic landscapes.

The second of my selected locations, a further 2 hours drive from Vik takes you through some very sparsley populated areas and very diverse landscapes. The Skaftafell national park is situated on the edge of the Vatnajokull Glacier, the largest single glacier in Europe and a total contrast from the landscape around Vik. Black granite peaks with glacier tongues flowing between them into lakes filled with icebergs.

This area also leads into the third destination, another 40 minute drive along the edge of the mountain range from Skaftafell to Jokulsarlon. The largest glacial tonge of the Vatnajokull Glacier. Another unique area, the glacier flows into an imense lake crammed with icebergs, some the size of houses.

The Lockusarlon lake is open to the sea and the smaller icebergs get caught in the daily tidal exchange and are then washed out to sea. The sea around Lockusarlon is strewn with icebergs and every day bergs of all sizes are washed up on the black beaches where they melt. The clear ice gives an almost negative feel to black and white photography.

Free Entry
Monday – Friday. 9.30 – 16.30

The Royal Photographic Society
Fenton House
122 Wells Road
Bath BA2 3AH

For further information please contact Lesley Goode.  01225 325720 lesley@rps.org