Iceland - Another Take

Ambassador and Mrs. Albert Jónsson attended a photographic art exhibit hosted by the Villanova University Art Gallery on February 23, 2007. Mr. John Welsh exhibit, entitled “Iceland-Another Take,” is the result of his travels to Iceland that began in 2001.  Mr. Welsh’s travels to Iceland have produced 8,000 landscape photographs, 34 of which are on exhibit.  “Eight thousand sounds like a huge number and it is, but it’s what was needed to relate what I experienced in Iceland’s empty spaces,” Welsh recalled.  “The images I have seen are fantastic cascading waterfalls, lush meadows and endless horizons all taken under perfect light. But I felt they told only part of Iceland’s story.”  Therefore, Mr. Welsh was constantly looking for another perspective, a different method of perceiving the landscape, and in so doing Mr. Welsh has transcended all conventional rules of landscape photography and produced a unique and fresh look at experiencing Icelandic landscape.

The exhibit runs from February 23 to April 12, 2007.  For exhibit hours, telephone the Villanova University Art Gallery at 610-519-4612 or visited their website: http://www.artgallery.villanova.edu/

Mr. Welsh’s website is http://www.iceland-anothertake.com