Snow and silence.

Winter in the far north of Iceland is a season of long darkness, brief daylight and deep silence. Snow blankets the vast, open landscapes, the roads are deserted, and the scattered settlements seem very far apart.

The photographs below are followed by a video assembled from footage gathered over several winters in northern Iceland, set to a song by Mukesh. His plaintive timbre echoes the melancholy and loneliness of the landscape without melodrama.