A black-sand coastline at dusk under a violet sky, with low cliffs receding into mist.

Featured · Iceland: Long Light

The Long Light

In May the sun on Heimaey barely sets. It crosses the horizon, dims for an hour, and starts climbing again. Two weeks of that light changed how I expose for shadows for the rest of the year.

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Frame Notes · Issue 04

A working journal — long-form photo essays, single frames, and the stories that travel with them.

Written and photographed by Iris Halloway. New work most months. No newsletter, no algorithms, no infinite scroll.

Frames published: 214
Essays in print: 18
Latest stock: Portra 400, expired
Filed from: Lisbon · Porto

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A close-cropped portrait of a woman in her sixties looking directly at the camera, soft window light from the left.

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After the Storm

I went to the Outer Banks six weeks after Hurricane Lila made landfall expecting to make pictures of damage. I came back with pictures of repair — and a hundred conversations about what the next storm will mean.

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