Wool, Wind and Waves: Faroe Islands

limited-edition photography book capturing the islands through texture, silence, and attention.

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Limited edition of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author.
Photographs, text, design: Eva Chupikova
Size: 21×16,5 cm
Pages: 150
Paper: FocusArt 200g
Language: English
Swiss binding
Self-published 2026
price: € 85 + shipping (based on the country of delivery)

No trees grow here, leaving the shapes of the Faroe Islands utterly exposed. Neither the rugged coastline nor the suede-like grassy hills can shield you - from the wind, the rain, the snowstorm, or even from yourself.

There is something deeply honest in this bare fabric of the earth. Here, one cannot pretend, ignore, or look away. The often-held human conceit that we are the measure of all things quietly dissolves on the gusty cliffs, replaced by a humbling awareness of one’s own smallness. The elements grip the senses and limbs with such palpable force that there remains little room for vanity. Smugness and arrogance simply cannot take root in the sharp air and soil of this place.

It was this intimate, almost visceral feeling - this sense of the landscape not merely being observed, but actively seeping into my fingertips and yearning to be touched - that my camera sought to capture. My lens shifted from sweeping vistas to finer details: from the craggy faces of mountains to the canvases of ochre grass where the wind’s invisible hand playfully parts the soft fleece of grazing sheep. Through the viewfinder, I froze fleeting silver veins cascading across the land. I paused time to witness delicate laceworks of tumbling water descending into the ocean’s depths. I drank in the silhouettes of island formations shrouded in mist, and the endlessly varied patterns of volcanic contours shaped by millennia of relentless elements.

Through light and shadow, composition and focus, I aimed to convey the tangible essence of this land - its grit, its texture, and its raw beauty. For when these islands are truly allowed to permeate one’s being - whether experienced in person or, as I hope, through the compositions on these pages - they leave behind an indescribable sensation: a quiet, overwhelming urge to embrace this land.

This collection of photographs, taken throughout 2024 and 2025, is my attempt to translate that sensation into visual form. It is offered in the hope that, through my lens, you too might feel the elemental power, silent majesty, and unvarnished truth of the Faroe Islands.

„Eva Chupikova uses her lens like an enchanted looking glass to see far beyond the scenic and the picturesque. She captures the power, the serenity, and the wildness of the Faroe Islands and carries us across the landscape as if we have the wings of a raven.“

–Tim Ecott
author of The Land of Maybe: a Faroe Islands Year
"A land without trees, where wind, water, and stone insist on being felt rather than admired. The Faroe Islands don’t pose. They uncover. They confront. They humble."

~ author
"I visited the Faroe Islands twice, each time at the end of winter. A season when weather changes faster than thought, and silence stretches time. Traveling alone alters perception. Hours slow down. Observation deepens. You stop narrating and start listening. Moving by local buses and ferries, often as the only passenger, I learned the radius of a day. A place you can walk. A place you can truly enter. These photographs are not about arrival. They are about staying. A book you experience with your fingertips as much as with your eyes."

~ author
"In the Faroe Islands, even silence has a texture. I did not go there to collect views. I went to listen. "

~ author
"There is something about those islands — wind that rearranges your thoughts, light that refuses to perform, landscapes that ask to be listened to. I have been working quietly. Collecting. Returning. Refining.

~ author
"When I first landed in the Faroe Islands, I arrived as photographers often do — full of excitement. Camera ready. A carefully prepared itinerary… I still remember the feelings that flooded me on the bus from the airport, when I first caught sight of the Faroese landscape through raindrops on the window. In that blurred, shifting view of grass, sheep, and sea, there was already a quiet certainty — that I would experience something meaningful here. I visited the islands twice — in 2024 and again in 2025. The first journey was discovery. The second was listening. After returning home from that second stay, the idea of a book began to take shape. What followed were months of distance and discernment. Sorting through thousands of frames. Questioning what deserved to remain. Editing. Re-editing. Letting go. Testing prints. Adjusting tones. Searching for the right paper. The book did not appear immediately. It asked for patience. Now, after two years of refining and reconsidering, it has taken its final form. The images that endured — those that carried weight, texture, and silence — have become a physical object. A book that began in wind and rain is now entering the world. And as it reaches the hands of its first readers through this pre-sale, the moment feels both grounding and quietly extraordinary."

~ author

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„Eva Chupikova uses her lens like an enchanted looking glass to see far beyond the scenic and the picturesque. She captures the power, the serenity, and the wildness of the Faroe Islands and carries us across the landscape as if we have the wings of a raven.“

"A land without trees, where wind, water, and stone insist on being felt rather than admired. The Faroe Islands don’t pose. They uncover. They confront. They humble."

"In the Faroe Islands, even silence has a texture. I did not go there to collect views. I went to listen. "

"There is something about those islands — wind that rearranges your thoughts, light that refuses to perform, landscapes that ask to be listened to. I have been working quietly. Collecting. Returning. Refining.