The things people do at Reynisfjara
At the beginning of 2024, I’d planned on a travel project where I photographed the reality of what you’d find at popular tourist destinations. The electric wires most people are photoshopping out, the mass of other people, that kind of thing. I abandoned the project before I even started traveling, partially because I lost interest and partially because it felt a bit cynical.
When we visited Iceland, though, I did take the opportunity to photograph people experiencing places, not just the places themselves. Reynisfjara beach was full of examples of people shooting big lenses, people proposing marriage, people ignoring the signs about the dangerous waves and nearly being sucked in (multiple times while we were there), children just having fun, parents filming children having fun, people vlogging, families staging the mom’s insta-pose, and the occasional person just being and seeing and memorizing (my favorite, though it wasn’t me). Enjoy.
