Michael Wilkins
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High-key black-and-white profile portrait of a white Icelandic horse against a pure white background, only its dark eye, ear and nostrils holding the frame.

The White Horse

Iceland

White on white — the first photograph I ever hung on my own wall.

This is the photograph that started the printing habit. Shot in Iceland, stripped back until the horse was barely separate from the sky — white coat, white ground, and only the eye, one ear and the soft grey of the muzzle left to do the work. It was the first frame I ever blew up big and hung on my own wall in Sydney, and it's still the one I judge the others against.

Part of Iceland in Winter, a series.