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Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir

Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir is a research and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Design and Fine Art at Iceland University of the Arts. She was Dean of the Department of Design and Architecture from 2018-2020. She is a board member in CIRRUS - Nordic-Baltic network of Art and Design education. Sigrún Alba has a MA in Modern culture and cultural communication from the University of Copenhagen. She has published a number of academic articles and books on photography, architecture and historiography, including Reflection. Contemporary Icelandic Photography (2008) and Snert á arkitektúr/Touching Architecture (2017). She is co-editor of a recently published anthology on Icelandic Photography, Fegurðin er ekki skraut. Íslensk samtímaljósmyndun (2020).