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Iceland travel countryside, rural world Voyage en islande www.saga-islande.com photos : Bruno Compagnon

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SVEIT #01An Icelandic life

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GEYSIRDOES IT

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contents

4 intro

8 Book

12 Rettir

22 Farmers

38 Road trip

50 Pêcheurs d’Islande

60 Portfolio

© All Rights Reserved : Bruno Compagnon / www.saga-islande.com [email protected]

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SVEIT #01Sveit : countryside, rural world, district

An Icelandic word untranslatable into English, is “what connects you to the earth, to history, to nature, to humanity“

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Relié - 200 photographies• 176 pages• Format 22 x 23 cm• 27,50 euros• ISBN : 978-2-35678-094-2

ISLANDE, les hautes terres

Terre de glace, terre de feu, à mi-chemin entre le Groenland et l’Écosse… l’Islandepossède une beauté unique, âpre et fascinante. Vol-cans, champs de lave, falaises,cascades, geysers et sources thermales, petits che-vaux et baleines… on s’y émerveille aussi devant les aurores boréales, les vallées glaciaires et les fjords liésà sa proximité avec le cercle polaire.Quelque 320 000 habitants y vivent, répartis entre la capitale Reykjavik, où sontconcentrées les activités politiques, économiques et culturelles du pays, et depaisibles villages côtiers. Passionné par l’image, le pho-tographe Bruno Compagnon sillonne le mondedepuis plus de vingt ans. Son premier voyage en Islande en 2009 est pour lui une révélation et il y re-tourne depuis très régulièrement. Des paysages rêvésmais aussi des rencontres hors du commun.

by Bruno Compagnon

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At Rettir time,

On one day in the year in Iceland, in September, the sheep owners bring their animals back to circular folds and pens. Then, they sort and recuperate their sheep.

It is an extremely important day in Icelandic life, very anchored in the national folklore.The day before, all the far-mers in a region traverse the land on horseback and start to bring back the sheep. The next day, the sorting begins. The sheep are herded into circular folds divided into small sections, a section for each owner. Upon its arrival into the fold, the sheep, mar-ked, goes to its owner’s zone. The sorting takes all day. Meanwhile, the hunt for the sheep dispersed in the countryside continues.

the roundup

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FARMERS ARE THE SOUL OF ICELAND

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FARMERS ARE THE SOUL OF ICELAND

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ROAD TRIP

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ROAD TRIP

In answer to the question put to Neil Amstrong upon his re-turn to Earth: “What does the moon look like?”, he replied “Iceland”!An utter change of scenery, an initiatory journey back to the origins of the world: the use of superlatives is not out of place here where beauty and force are united. Iceland is, of course, those surreal landscapes and that preserved nature but it is also a never-ending battle against the elements in this land of mysterious and bewitching splendour.

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ROAD TRIP

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PECHEURS D’ISLANDE

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Autour de l’Islande, il fait cette sorte de temps rareque les matelots appellent le calme blanc ;c’est-à-dire que rien ne bougeait dans l’air, comme si toutes les brises étaient épuisées, finies. Pierre Loti

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PORTFOLIO

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