Qerndu

14/05/2026

Photo London opens today.

Qerndu returns to Photo London with a focused presentation of works by Ragnar Axelsson, Pétur Thomsen, and Ari Magg.

We look forward to welcoming visitors to Booth B03

13/05/2026

Photo London opens tomorrow.

Qerndu returns to Photo London with a focused presentation of works by Ragnar Axelsson, Pétur Thomsen, and Ari Magg.

The booth brings together photographs made across Iceland and Greenland, moving between documentary photography, abstraction, and landscape transformation.

We look forward to welcoming visitors to Booth G04 at Olympia throughout the fair.

Photo London
15–18 May 2025
Preview: 14 May
Booth G04

For further information or preview requests, please get in touch with the gallery.

07/05/2026

07/05/2026

Qerndu at Photo London
May 13–17, 2026 | Booth G04, Olympia

Qerndu returns to Photo London with a focused presentation of Icelandic photography, featuring Ragnar Axelsson, Pétur Thomsen, and Ari Magg.

Bringing together works made across Iceland and Greenland, the presentation moves between documentary photography, landscape, and abstraction.

We look forward to welcoming you to our booth.

Image captions: Ragnar Axelsson, Sled Dog, Greenland, 2007; Ragnar Axelsson, Polar Bear Tracks on the Sea Ice, Greenland, 2017; Ragnar Axelsson, Polar Bear and Sled Dogs on Iceberg, Scoresbysund, Greenland, 2026; Ari Magg, Rothko, 2014; Ragnar Axelsson, Storm, Thule, Qaanaaq, Greenland, 2019; Ragnar Axelsson, Jökulgil, 2007; Pétur Thomsen, Landnám 1812, 2022; Pétur Thomsen, Landnám_3287, 2023; Ragnar Axelsson, Iceberg, Scoresbysund, Greenland, 2024; Ragnar Axelsson, Dómsdalur, Iceland, 2005.

09/01/2026

Greenlandic hunters have long faced nature at its most unforgiving. Out on the sea ice, in bitter cold and sudden storms, they hunt to feed their families, knowing there is little margin for error. Few people have lived in conditions this dangerous and demanding. The landscape is beautiful, but it is never safe, and yet this is where their lives are rooted.

The sea is unforgiving and has taken its toll. Not everyone has returned home. When things go wrong, there is no rescue waiting. Hunters depend on their own judgment, their dogs, and each other. Man and dog move and survive in conditions foreign to most of us.

Some of the Arctic’s greatest heroes travel this ice, with few equals anywhere in the world. Together, a man and a dog carry a story that is rarely told, but one that deserves to be known.

06/01/2026

The Hunter from Greenland.

Feature documentary, 2026

The Hunter from Greenland tells the story of Hjelmer Hammeken, a hunter who has lived his life in one of the most remote villages in the world. Ittoqqortoormiit in Scoresby Sound, part of the most extensive fjord system on Earth. A story of a relationship between people and nature that is moving through a period of change.

Photographer Ragnar Axelsson has followed Hjelmer for 35 years, documenting his life, family, and hunting. Together, they have travelled the sea ice, survived storms, and watched the community slowly disappear. The film paints a portrait of one of the last polar-bear hunters of our time and of a community facing the prospect of vanishing.

In recent decades, the population of the villages around Scoresby Sound has dropped by half. Cape Hope and Cape Tobin are now abandoned. Storms and cold have taken over. Houses disappear one by one. With them, stories, traditions, and a way of life rooted in a thousand years of knowledge and sustainability are being lost.

Hjelmer misses the Greenland of the past, when the sea ice was thick and safe. He does not know where the future will lead, but he keeps hunting as long as his strength holds. He knows no other life.

18/12/2025

On view for the first time, Ragnar Axelsson’s powerful portfolio of images shortlisted for Human, the 2023 cycle of the Prix Pictet photography award for global sustainability, will be exhibited as a standalone collection at Qerndu Gallery in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Comprising ten black-and-white photographs, Human: Where the World is Melting captures the resilience of people living in the Arctic regions where climate change is happening more quickly than anywhere else on Earth.

These images, which have travelled the globe as part of the Prix Pictet: Human group exhibition since 2023, bear witness to the challenges and enduring spirit of communities at the edge of a changing world.

Qerndu Gallery is located on Laugavegur 3, 101 Reykjavík. Entrance located in the underpass, up to the second floor. Open weekdays from 10 am to 5 pm, and by appointment.