Gísli studied at the University of Iceland after High school. 2011 he started at “The School of Photography”, and graduated in the year 2014 as a professional Photographer.
Gísli’s interest became documentary based photography. In pursuit of that, he has attended some Workshops:
November 2013: “The Other Side of the Conflict”, held by the Israel group Punctum, under guidance of the documentary photographer, Jan Grarup.
March 2014: workshop in Asia, with emphasis on people‘s lives in Cambodia and Vietnam.
November 2014: workshop in Bangkok, where he started a project regarding Ladyboys in Asia.
The year 2017 Gísli graduated with a Diploma in Photojournalism and documentary photography, held by DMJX (Denmarks Media og Journalist School), NOOR and World Press Photo. Gísli has been a professional NPPA member since 2014.
