Pétur Thomsen

Date
16 September 2010

Pétur Thomsen has a keen eye for the collapse of natural environment. Imported Landscape (in fact, all of his work) offers some kind of haunting reflection on man’s erosive affect on his home country of Iceland. Is a photograph beautiful if it’s documenting the destruction of beauty? Alas, Thomsen’s contradiction.

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Alex Moshakis

Alex originally joined It’s Nice That as a designer but moved into editorial and oversaw the It’s Nice That magazine from Issue Six (July 2011) to Issue Eight (March 2012) before moving on that summer.

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