Reykjavík, Iceland, October 2026

Walking through Reykjavík, I became interested in the visual relationships between its traditional houses and contemporary architecture. Buildings separated by age, scale and materials nevertheless share elements of colour, geometry and rhythm. Repeated windows, vertical divisions and strong architectural lines appear in quite different settings.

In Counterparts, photographs are brought together in pairs, each linked by a visual correspondence. Sometimes the relationship is immediately apparent; elsewhere it emerges through closer examination. The arrangement invites the viewer to move between the two images, noticing both their similarities and the differences that remain.

The work is not intended as an architectural survey or simply a contrast between old and new. Rather, it explores how placing two photographs together changes the way each is seen. Details that might be overlooked in an individual image acquire a different significance through their relationship with another.