I am a South African art educator with Icelandic and South African family and heritage. This hybrid identity has influenced my choice in the name Dóttir photography. Dóttir meaning daughter in Icelandic. It is an archive of my photographic expression through diverse photographic genres and projects.
I have a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts specialising in Film and Media Studies from the University of Cape Town. I have exhibited as part of group exhibitions and worked as a curator and gallery assistant both in Cape Town and London.
My final years BA Fine Art series entitled Cloneurbia, was included in numerous exhibitions, both locally (Cape Town Month of Photography) and internationally (Next Wave Festival, Melbourne) and was published in Itch magazine (Bell Roberts Publishing). My projects have been publised in two recent publications: “A Queer Thing Reflections on the Art Exhibition Swallow My Pride” (Duke University Press, November 7, 201) and “Not No Place, Johannesburg, Fragments of Spaces and Times” (Fanele, 2013). “A Queer Thi