Exhibition: Photographs from The Ring Road – Neil J. Smyth

A solo road trip around Iceland in winter 2020, photographed weeks before the world shut down. About At the end of February 2020, weeks before Ireland’s first Covid-19 lockdown, Neil J. Smyth set off alone in a camper van on a ten-day road trip around Iceland’s Ring Road. With no schedule but his own, he followed quiet roads, lingered at abandoned buildings and walked out across snow-covered country, stopping to photograph whatever caught his eye. The exhibition presents photographs from that journey: storm clouds over sea stacks, a snowbound truck, a fuel pump glowing in the dark, red-roofed farmhouses half-lost in snow. “The pure joy and freedom of that experience became even more precious in hindsight, as the world shut down just a few weeks later,” says Smyth. First published in November 2025 in PhotoIreland and The Library Project’s TLP Editions series, the work is now shown as framed limited-edition prints, available to buy at the exhibition. Opening Thursday 19 November, 6pm–9:30pm, all welcome. Free entry. Read more Toggle Photography