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Ballen has photographed his subjects on their own terms

sometimes serenely beautiful--where memories and physical obsessions burn throughout the endless Arctic winter

Faces of the North lorenzo Meloni as if also on aSecond printing from 2006 in fine condition. Raised on an isolated farm in southern Iceland, Ragnar Axelsson (born 1958) became captivated early on by the brutal beauty of the North Atlantic and the delicate interactions between its inhabitants and their environment. Born of that fascination, Faces of the North, first published in a small print run in 2004, established Axelsson as one of the leading documentary photographers of our time. It contained