Juanjo Ivaldi is a South American photographer originally from Paraguay. He has lived in Iceland for 11 years in total, in 2 different stages of his life. He has carried out his photographic studies in Paraguay (2007-2009), where he has documented diverse aspects of a complex and vulnerable reality, collaborating for NGOs and for the Fotociclo collective. The encounter with the vastness of the Icelandic landscape had an impact on his photography and there was a period very focused on landscapes. From the skin of landscapes he moved on to a series of nudes and that search led to an exhibition called "Intimacy at naked places", Art Basel (2015). Based in Seyðisfjörður since 2020 he has toured the eastern fjords with the exhibition "Misplaced Gaze" which opened at Castillo de Mata Museum, Las Palmas, Canary Island (2021). Together with Apolline Fjara he has been organizing and touring Austurland with Fiskisúpa með Ljósmyndasosa, a community dinner to open conversations around photography in a light atmosphere. In the north he has participated in the project Fl(j)óð (2023) where he has made portraits of women of foreign origin living in Hunaþing Vestra. Currently, he is realizing a new project of portraits and intimate landscapes in Hornafjörður. After his last exhibition in Paraguay (2024) he is deepenin in a photography that portrays the moods and emotions of human beings and nature. A poetic search in the image.