He uses his immediate surroundings where he is staying any time as the subject of his photographs. Viggo Mortensen has travelled widely and has lived in various places in his life. Thus, his acting is only a part of a larger whole as he is recognized for his photography, which he has been doing for many years, together with painting, poetry and music. Mortensen finds more than one path to channel his artistic creation and often mixes them together. Many people may connect the name of this multi-talented artist with acting rather than photography, as he has been very successful as a movie actor for which he recently received an Oscar nomination. The title of the exhibition SKOVBOis from the photographer's second native language, Danish, and could be translated as "home in the forest" or in a wider context - life in the forest. In a strange coincidence, the accident occurred occurred only a mile from Lewisham, where another train crashed ten years earlier and killed 90 people.The Reykjavík Museum of Photography is pleased to announce the exhibition SKOVBO by Viggo Mortensen. The crash killed 49 people and injured 78. Gibb's recent success of off the band's recent hit, "Massachusetts", afforded the teenager the opportunity to book a first class compartment, something he believed "saved" him and Huillis from the unthinkable.ĭuring the 114 km journey, the train ran into broken track, causing 11 of its 12 carriages derail while travelling approximately 112 km/h between the Hither Green and Grove Park train stations. 5, 1967, Gibb and his then fiancée and eventual first wife, Molly Hullis, were travelling from Hastings to London by train. The Bee Gees singer's brush with death would stay with him for the rest of his life and be a motivating factor behind one of his final passion projects.
On this day in 1967, a 17-year-old Robin Gibb survived a tragic train accident that left 49 people dead. This article is part of Yahoo's 'On This Day' series
Hither Green train crash: How 1967 tragedy inspired survivor Robin Gibb's work
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