I moved to Hafnarfjörður in 2008 (actually I lived here temporarily before, but in 2008 I moved in permanently). You could call it suburb of Reykjavík but for me it was always a very different place, a separate town, although I didn't know it too well. I don't know if it is because of the weather or the city planning, but people in Iceland don't walk much, we know our neighbourhoods only through our car windows. Things changed for me when my son was born and I started walking him in his stroller for 10 kms every day.

In tourist brochures, Hafnarfjörður is depicted as the sunny town on lava, full of smiley vikings. It's also place with biggest population of elves in Iceland. I haven't met any vikings on my trips, nor elves. Actually, because I wandered further and further from downtown, I hardly met any people (or huldufólk) and it wasn't sunny either.

It's kind of a 'side project' - in the beginning I was very serious about it. I was taking a Hasselblad and tripod on every trip but soon I gave up, after all I'm there for my kid. So the pictures you see here are the snapshots from my little digital Pentax. The project is still ongoing, you can see latest photos on it’s facebook page.

In November 2015 I published photo-book with part of the photos from this project.