My year in photos

I hope you have enjoyed the Holidays with your friends and family and that you are ready to take on whatever the new year brings !

2013 has been quite the year !

Here are some highlights :

Shooting for new magazines, seeing my work on prints regularly and having my first covers
Winning an award for Excellence in Fashion Editorial from London College of Fashion
Shooting street style at London Fashion Week
Working with new young designers, brands and for online stores
Seeing my work exhibited twice and printed out in a book for the first time
But most of all, all the new people I have met, gotten to know and worked with, as well as the people that follow my work and encourage me to work harder every day. I could not do this with out you !

To celebrate the new year I will be releasing my first fashion film I ever shot tomorrow ! :)
So stay tuned !

Thank you for your for everything ♥ 

x iris

Heritage magzine

 I did a shoot for Emily Cha a fashion journalism student that is starting up with her own magazine. The shoot is inspired by British and Korean heritage and shot on my new beauty camera :)

It is always fun to shoot Peggy, she has the biggest personality ♥

Photography Íris Björk

Styling and art dierction Emily Cha www.midnightinbusan.com 

Makeup and hair Somi Jang

Model Peggy Gould http://peggygould.tumblr.com/

As you might have noticed I changed the background on my blog from white to black, I thought the images popped out more against black background, what do you think about it? good or too much ? please let me know **

x iris

Big instagram and life update *

Since I have blogged very little over the last month here is a big update from my life :)

Most of the images are from my instagram www.instagram.com/irisbjorkr as well as some special extras **

Here is a picture of the very unglamourous site of photography - carrying lots of stuff around ! 

Renting out some lights from my university and carrying them home. I think this box is about 15 kilos with no wheals and a metal handle, I had blisters on my hands by the time I got home ! oh well

Margret doing Beata's makeup from behind the scenes for my Christmas shoot for MAN magasín

 One of my hidden talents, wait until you see what I can do with my nose !

Right after handing in the first part of my final major project for uni. I already got the result and I am very happy with it !

I had a photography workshop with Walter Hugo which was quite amazing. He changes the whole darkroom into a camera and sticks a lens out of the room. We shot images on glass plates and developed them right away. I obviously squeezed in as a test model for Walter Hugo himself and got myself a copy of an image by him (on the right ) :) ! the one on the left is by Adam Csoka Keller

 I also had a styling workshop where I got to try this amazing Anna Piaggy mask made by John William !

The best thing about this month was that I finally bought a camera I have been dreaming about for almost 2 years :) !! SO HAPPY :):):):):)

And I got the change to shoot 3 editorials with it right away for the second issue of The Mark Mag :) ! this is a behind the scene shot from a very busy weekend shooting ! I stood on top of so many things that weekend that I got strings in my legs afterwards

And another one of me standing on top of things :) ! Marina on the left, Margrét in the middle and Julia sitting there instagramming !

These are all the films I used over a very busy weekend with my new camera ! Hand developing them in the darkroom really tested my inner strenght as frankly I am very afraid off the dark, somehow I always get through it though. Scanning all the images took 2 loooong days - soo much work but so worth it ! Can't wait to show you the images

After all the hard work me and Hilmar ( my boyfriend ) went to Sweden over the weend to visit my brother and his family. Here we are in Jule Liseberg and as you can see I have a big crush on him :)

Here are Elísa and Benni ( my brothers kids ) after a very cute Santa Lucia performance in their kinder garden :) it was a very cute weekend !

When I got back to London I decided to cut my hair again ! :) quite happy with the result

And finally I spent my Saturday night baking 3 different sorts of Christmas cookies for Hilmar, my flatmates and myself. I feel so grown up, although I still eat way too much of the dough :)!

The last month has seriously been a bit crazy, soo much work but also so much fun and the best part is that tomorrow I am going home to Iceland for my Christmas break :) I CAN'T WAIT !!! :):):)

xx Íris Björk

Chrismas shoot for MAN magasín

Hi everyone, it has been a while since I blogged as I have been very busy over the last weeks.

Here is my newest editorial for MAN magasín the Christmas issue ** Glamorous and chick

Photography Íris Björk

Styling Marina De Magalhe

Makeup and hair Margret Magnus

Model Beata @PRM agency
Styling assistant Camilla Sverdrup-Thygeson

They are quite different from my previous work as I have been experimenting with new lighting but I hope you like them *

x iris bjork

Tara Dougans - inspiration

The other day I came across these amazing fashion illustrations by Tara Dougans !

I recommend following her on tumblr http://taradougans.tumblr.com/ to see more of her work and where the inspiration comes from, it is truly inspiring.
If you look closely, you will notice some movement around the eyes in some of the images below.

http://www.taradougans.com/

All the illustrations in this post are the work of Tara Dougnas.

x iris