The Land of Energy
This reportage offers a glimpse of the surreal Icelandic environment where young men live their lives playing football on the brightest nights and coming up with innovative business ideas. The focus is on energy - natural power and how humanity relates to it.
The first photos portray the environment of Reykjavik and the surrounding countryside. The following photos introduce Viktor and his family. Viktor works at a company that promotes the use of geothermal power worldwide, which is often considered the cleanest energy available.
Viktor lives in a former factory, where he works on his business idea: using cheap, readily available energy to grow basil plants and sell them as rare delicacies in the Icelandic market. In parallel, Viktor lives the normal life of a guy of his age in Iceland: playing football with his friends, roaming around trying to sell the skin of a polar bear, watching his friends swimming in the coldest of the seas, getting back home late at night, when the Summer sun is still shining.
(c) Mario Mariniello 2008.
