Valhalla
I’m enjoying the new Icelandic Scandi-Noir drama in BBC4, ‘The Valhalla Murders’. I went to Iceland back in 1997 for a long, winter weekend. On the plane over I read about a Japanese photographer, Takeshi Homma and his book of Icelandic Suburban Landscapes. Rows of pastel painted low-rise tower blocks and manicured homes set against a snowy backdrop, it became one of my favourite photography folios. I was channeling something of Homma when I took this shot (on B&W 35mm film) of a backstreet in Reykjavik.