The exhibition "Half a Century Through the Lens" explores press photographer Gunnar V. Andrésson’s career, that lasted more than fifty years – from 1966 to 2017.

His photographs, published in daily newspapers Tíminn, Vísir, DV (Dagblaðið Vísir) and Fréttablaðið and on the visir.is news website, provide invaluable documentation of life in Iceland. At the exhibition, the visitor progresses through time: the photos have the ambiance of their era, clearly manifesting the changes that have taken place over the years – whether in the environment, or in diverse fields of society.

Gunnar V. Andrésson, born in Reykjavík in 1950, was a press photographer for over fifty years. He started his career in 1966 on daily Tíminn, where he remained until 1978, when he moved on to afternoon paper Vísir. With the merger of Vísir and Dagblaðið in late 1981 he became a photographer for DV (Dagblaðið Vísir). He worked there until 2003, when the publishing company Frjáls fjölmiðlun ceased trading. He then worked as a photographer for daily Fréttablaðið and the visir.is news website until he retired in 2017.

Gunnar’s photo archive from his time at DV, Fréttablaðið and visir.is, together with some images from his years at Tíminn, is in the keeping of the Reykjavík Museum of Photography.