Awards
Shortlist Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2020
Exhibitions
Where the World is Melting
Ernst Leitz Museum, Wetzlar
23.01. – 29.05.2026
Arctic Heroes – Verborgene Geschichten
The Nordic Embassies, Berlin
27.01. – 12.04.2026
At the Edge of the World
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
22.11.2024 – 26.01.2025
Arctic Heroes
Leica Galerie, Salzburg
05.02. – 05.04.2025
Arctic Heroes
Leica Galerie Düsseldorf, Germany
10.11.2023 – 29.02.2024
Where the World is Melting
PHOXXI. HAUS DER PHOTOGRAPHIE TEMPORÄR, Hamburg
17.03. - 18.06.2023
Arctic Heroes – Where the world is melting
Leica Galerie Zingst, Germany
30.09. – 15.12.2022
Down North (Group Exhibition)
Portland Museum of Art, USA
18.02. – 05.06.2022
Where the World is Melting
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
30.01.– 09.05.2021
Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin
09.04. - 29.05.2021
Ragnar Axelsson. First Retrospective
Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung, Munich
15.12.2021 – 27.02 2022
Book Signings
Festival La Gacilly Photo, France
Artist Talk followed by a book signing
22.07.2021, 18:30
Reviews
The New Yorker, 28.12.2021
Edition with print
Signed book
Ragnar Axelsson Arctic Heroes A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland
This title is distributed in the US by Consortium / Ingram.
Arctic Heroes takes a poignant look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog. In Greenland, where the melting ice sheet is irrevocably disrupting the hunters’ 4,000-year old traditional way of life, the stark reality of global warming is an immediate and direct threat to their everyday survival. The Greenland sled dog, essential to Inuit settlement and survival, now faces extinction as hunters are forced to adapt to the vanishing world around them. In over 150 images, and through hunters’ personal stories, this book bears witness to the animals’ magnificence and the deep, integral role they play in the hunters’ lives. The subjects of Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson, also known as RAX (b. 1958), are people, animals, and landscape, but the focus of his work is the extraordinary relationships the people of the Arctic have developed with their extreme environment.
Cloth hardcover
25,2 x 34,8 cm
290 pages
137 tritone illustrations
English
Available
ISBN 978-3-96900-007-6
Dezember 2020
Artists:
Design:
Einar Geir Ingvarsson
Product information "Ragnar Axelsson"
This title is distributed in the US by Consortium / Ingram.
Arctic Heroes takes a poignant look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog. In Greenland, where the melting ice sheet is irrevocably disrupting the hunters’ 4,000-year old traditional way of life, the stark reality of global warming is an immediate and direct threat to their everyday survival. The Greenland sled dog, essential to Inuit settlement and survival, now faces extinction as hunters are forced to adapt to the vanishing world around them. In over 150 images, and through hunters’ personal stories, this book bears witness to the animals’ magnificence and the deep, integral role they play in the hunters’ lives. The subjects of Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson, also known as RAX (b. 1958), are people, animals, and landscape, but the focus of his work is the extraordinary relationships the people of the Arctic have developed with their extreme environment.
Cloth hardcover
25,2 x 34,8 cm
290 pages
137 tritone illustrations
English
Available
ISBN 978-3-96900-007-6
Dezember 2020
Artists:
Design:
Einar Geir Ingvarsson
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