Project: Askja
Year: 2025 Editorial  project exploring landscape, memory and the sublime through a visual narrative rooted in Icelandic territory, articulated through a typeface designed by Maxence Duterne.


Information:
Askja is an editorial project developed from a journey across Iceland, tracing the island from north to south and engaging with some of its most remote and desolate landscapes. The project takes its name from the Askja caldera, a place where volcanic force, silence and scale converge, shaping an experience of nature that feels both overwhelming and deeply introspective.

Through photography, text and graphic composition, Askja reflects on the notion of the sublime as described by nineteenth-century Romantic thought: an encounter where beauty, fear and awe coexist, and where human presence is reduced to its most fragile dimension. The visual language emphasises texture, contrast and spatial emptiness, allowing the landscape to function not merely as scenery but as an active narrative element. Conceived as an editorial artefact, the project explores how design can mediate between documentation and emotion, constructing a visual rhythm that mirrors the physical act of traversing the land. Askja ultimately positions the natural environment as a space for reflection, where memory, silence and scale reshape our understanding of place and human perception.

florpgwork@gmail.com

Next project