The first snow had just fallen when I met a woman farmer called Bjarney in October 2023. It was a chance meeting outside a remote fishing village in north Iceland on an artist residency. Bjarney showed me around her cow and sheep farm and gave me a car with two bags of sheep’s wool on the passenger seat and addresses of other women farmers in the north.

These photographs share the stories and history of working women in the northern rural areas of Iceland: the original ‘herring girls’ of the 1950s, a sea woman who fishes alone on a remote peninsula, a farmer and entrepreneur working to save dwindling northern village communities, an environmental scientist…..These women are dynamic, resilient, hard-working and soft hearted. This project will develop next spring into east Greenland - documenting the women in remote hunting communities that are disappearing as the glaciers melt with climate change.