The first snow had just fallen when I met a woman farmer called Bjarney in October 2023. It was a chance meeting outside a remote fishing village in north Iceland on an artist residency.

Bjarney showed me around her 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 in remote areas of Iceland who are resilient, dynamic, hard working and soft-hearted and are many things: sisters, mothers, horse keepers, environmental scientists, seawomen, sheep farmers…..

This project is ongoing and will develop into east Greenland in 2025 to befriend and photograph women in this arctic region.