Reportage (1990 – 2007)
While working as a photojournalist and reporter for the daily Morgunblaðið around 1990, while living and studying in New York City in the early nineties, and as Morgunblaðið‘s picture editor 1995 – 2007, Einar Falur worked on various stories and picture-essays, in many countries. Many of them were syndicated to magazines and newspapers. He spent for instance a month covering the building of the Three Gorges Dam in China; photographed and wrote about the great Hindu religious festival Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India; visited the annual festival of „Western-Icelanders“ in Canada; experienced the 24 hour long Ash Wednesday festival in a village in Faroe Islands; went on tour in USA with the Icelandic band The Sugarcubes; and did a travel story about the Inca Trail in Peru, to name a few of the stories. In 2011 Einar Falur collected several of the stories in his book Án vegabréfs – Ferðasögur (Without a Passport – Travel Essays), published in Icelandic by Crymogea.
At the Kumbh Mela hindu festival in Allahabad, India, on the morning of January 24, 2001 - at the time it was the biggest gathering of men ever recorded.
Pilgrims at the Kumbh Mela festival, Allahabad in India, January 2001.
Holy men in a parade on the most auspicious day of the Kumbh Mela festival, Allahabad in India, January 24 2001.
At daybreak at the Kumbh Mela festival, Allahabad, India, January 2001.
Pilgrims watch a parade of holy men on the most auspicious day of the Kumbh Mela festival, Allahabad in India, January 24 2001.
The Maid of the Mountains - "fjallkonan" in Icelandic - on the Day of the Icelanders-festival, Gimli, Maintoba in Canada, August 1997.
From events on Day of the Icelanders-festival, Gimli, Maintoba in Canada, August 1997.
Canadian-Icelandic vikings during the Day of the Icelanders-festival, Gimli, Maintoba in Canada, August 1997.
Passengers leave a ferry on the Yangtze-river by the city of Chongqing, at the upper part of what would become the world's longest reservoir with the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China. January 2000.
Sailing into the Lesser-Three-Gorges on a Yangtze river tributary, now submerged by the Three Gorges Dam reservoir. China, January 2000.
Former leader of China Deng Xiaoping on a mural in the city of Wuhan, by the Yangtze, showing his dream of a city connected to the ocean on the dam's reservoir. China January 2000.
Activity by the Yangtze river in the heart of the city Chongqing, now at the upper end on the Three Gorges Dam reservoir. China January 2000.
One of the two huge ship-locks by the Gezhouba-dam, China. January 2000.
A man walks over a traditional bridge by the Yangtze river in the city of Chongqing. In the distance rices a new bridge that was ready before the reservoir started to rice a couple of years later. China, January 2000.
Miners working in mines in the Cerro Rico-mountain above Potosi in Boliva, take a break outside their mine-shaft and refresh themselves with some alcohol and coca-leaves. 1995.
A miner digging out cheap metals deep inside the Cerro Rico-mountain above Potosi in Boliva, 1995.
Sunday morning in the miner's graveyard in Potosi, Bolivia. The day before the family had buried the grandmother. During the night they dug up the bones of the grandfather, dead eight years before, and were putting his bones into the grandmother grave, so they could be together again. A woman distributes some coca-leaves among the relatives. 1995.
Ash-Wednesday celebrations in Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, 1999.
During the full night traditional Ash-Wednesday celebrations on the island of Sandur in Faroe Islands, where villagers visit each other's homes, dance, sing, drink and are happy. 1999.
During the full night traditional Ash-Wednesday celebrations on the island of Sandur in Faroe Islands, where villagers visit each other's homes, dance, sing, drink and are happy. 1999.
A market-day in Pisac in Urubamba-valley, the valley of the Incas, Peru. From a story about hiking the Inca-tail to Machu Picchu. 1995.
Heading up towards the Dead-Woman's-Pass, 4.200 meters. From a story about hiking the Inca-tail to Machu Picchu. 1995.
Ingibjörg in Machu Picchu. From a story about hiking the Inca-tail to Machu Picchu. 1995.
One of the 1200 or so Maldive-Islands. From a story about a fly-fishing trip to the islands in the Indian Ocean, 2007.
The captain of the boat with the much sought after catch, a Giant Trevally. From a story about a fly-fishing trip to the islands in the Indian Ocean, 2007.
The sun is setting after a great day fishing and an angler walks alone towards his boat on one of the hundreds of uninhabited islands of the Maldives, 2007.
A pilgrim performs a puja, a praying ritual, in the Ganges river in the holy city Varanasi, India, 1999.
A boy sells paan and tobacco in a tiny shop in one of the alleys in the old holy city of Varanasi, by the Ganges river, India 1999.
Pilgrims with a dove with a broken wing by the Ganges river in Varanasi, India, 1999.
Three members of The Sugarcubes tired after playing a long concert in Ventura, California, November 1992. From left: Sigryggur Baldursson, Einar Örn Guðmundsson (who turned thirty that day) and Björk Guðmundsdóttir.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir backstage in the Limelight, New York, before The Sugarcubes' last concert. 1992.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir screams a concert-guest off the stage in Limelight, New York, during The Sugarcubes' last concert. 1992.