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A field guide to fog
Lofoten, Norway2024
18 plates
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Where the cliffs end
Faroe Islands2023
21 plates
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04
Snow as a verb
Hokkaido, Japan2022—2023
16 plates
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Long horizons, brief people
Patagonia2021
14 plates
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Coastlines I keep returning to
Outer Hebrides2019—2020
19 plates
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“I make photographs of places that hold their breath.”
Mira Høst is a photographer working between Reykjavík and the wider North Atlantic. Her practice is rooted in slow looking — returning to the same coastlines through changing seasons, watching how light catalogues a place.
She works almost exclusively in available light, on medium format, and at a pace that the work itself dictates. A typical project takes three to seven years.
Her photographs have appeared in Cereal, Aperture, and the New York Times Magazine, and are held in private collections in Tokyo, London, and Oslo.
Magazine and editorial assignments — location and studio, on medium format. I take on a small number of commissions each year and prefer briefs that allow time on the ground.
Long-term partnerships with brands whose values align with quiet, considered work. Documentary campaigns, brand books, seasonal lookbooks — measured in years rather than weeks.
Limited archival pigment prints, signed and numbered. Released seasonally in editions of twelve, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Studio visits by appointment in Reykjavík.
A peninsula I've photographed for seven Novembers running. Why repetition, in landscape work, is not stagnation — and what changes when nothing else does.
A year on the 907X, and the small humilities of working with twelve frames a roll. Notes for anyone considering the switch — and a few for anyone considering not to.
Fragments written on the overnight crossing from Bodø — on weather, on solitude, and on the particular blue of an Arctic September.
For commissions, prints, press requests, and quiet hellos. I read everything, even when I'm slow to reply.
Studio visits by appointment only — usually Thursday afternoons when light is somewhere being interesting.