Surtsey The Shape of an Island // Vanessa Doutreleau and Hervé Jezequel

AVAILABLE FROM MARCH 13, 2025

// Vanessa Doutreleau, ethnographer, and Hervé Jézéquel, photographer // Photo // published: March 2020 // Créaphis editions // 202 pages // B&W and four-color illustrations // hardcover // 17 cm x 24 cm //

Emerging from the ocean in 1963 off the coast of Iceland, Surtsey is a small, protected volcanic island. It is expected to disappear within a few decades, as the lava erodes under the onslaught of storms and the ocean. Photographer Hervé Jézéquel and ethnographer Vanessa Doutreleau joined Icelandic researchers to create a scientific and poetic portrait of this ephemeral territory.

Meeting with the authors around their book Sunday March 16, 2025 at the Tannerie (Plourin-lès-Morlaix).

>>> the film The shape of an island, Vanessa Doutreleau and Hervé Jezequel present their project (4 min 15)

>>> the film The Birth of an Island (4 min 53)

>>> the film Set foot on Surtsey (40 min)