The first snow had just fallen when I met a woman farmer called Bjarney. It was a chance meeting outside a remote fishing village in north Iceland. Bjarney showed me around her cow and sheep farm and gave me a car with two bags of sheep’s wool on the passenger seat and addresses of other women farmers in the north.

These photographs share the stories of working women who are leading the way in Icelandic farming. These women are dynamic, resilient, hard-working and soft hearted and work to support one another. They forage for seasonal duck eiderdown in community, make furniture from old slatted barn floors and share wool in knitting circles. They are many things: mothers, farmers, scientists, business people, wives, friends, sisters…

This series was made on the NES Artist Residency in Skagastrond. It will be developed with a sound artist and videographer, on return to north Iceland in summer 2024.