• Þögul Leiftur (Silent Flashes) book, in both English and Icelandic (scheduled for completion in 2008-09)
• Silent Flashes film documentary (target date 2010)
• Silent Flashes North American travelling exhibit, presenting the artistic and sociological aspects of Icelandic pioneer photography in North America to a broader North American audience (target date 2010-11)
• Silent Flashes Photograph Archive and Database, preserving the largest collection of images relating to Icelandic immigration and settlement in North America (under development).
The challenges of the Silent Flashes Project:
• to save old photographs from loss, destruction, or obscurity
• to collect photographs together into a specialized archive
• to create copies of rare images from Icelandic pioneer history
• to promote awareness of photography as both history and art
• to explore the work of Icelandic photographers in N America
• to identify and index photographs as an accessible archive
• to provide photographic resources for books, media, etc.
• to examine the 'immigrant experience' through photography
The Silent Flashes Project is based at the Eyrarbakki Icelandic Heritage Centre near Hnausa, Manitoba.
