Hot Lagoons

• Photographer
  Sonia Costa
• Technical Info
  Leica D-lux 7
• Photo Date
  July 2022

The Gamla Laugin is the oldest swimming pool in Iceland. It was made in 1891 at Hverahólmi, a geothermal area with warm water coming from hot springs. not so far away from Reykjavik. Icelanders love to bathe in hot lagoons and this site, small and away from tourist groups , is the ideal place to enjoy and relax.

Born in Northeast Italy and based between Italy and France, she graduated in Geography at La Sapienza University in Rome. Since the 1990s, she has promoted sustainable, low-impact tourism across the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and remote corners of the world. A freelance documentary and street photographer, she focuses on ordinary lives,cultural stories and contemporary issues drawn to places far from the spotlight. Awarded in several international contests,her imagines have been published in magazines and books and she exhibited her work in Italy, USA, Spain, Greece and Japan.