Herring Girls

Siglufjörður, Iceland.
(Camera: Olympus Pen; Film: Kentmere Pan 100)

Cut steel plate sculpture by artist Arthur Ragnarsson. The work commemorates the women (including the artist’s mother and grandmother) who worked tirelessly during Sigló’s 20th-century herring heyday, which lasted until the stock collapsed in the 1960s. The memorial sculpture was inaugurated 2023.

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