JONAS BENDIKSEN. LIFE STORY IN THE PHOTOS

Jonas Bendiksen is a Norwegian photojournalist. He is a member of Magnum Photos and his photos has been published in magazines world wide, including several stories for Nathional Geographic.

A member of Magnum Photos, Jonas Bendiksen (born in Tunsberg, Norway, 1977) has received numerous awards, including the 2003 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography and first prize in the Pictures of the Year International Awards. His work has been exhibited at the Tom Blau Gallery in London and in the Moving Walls exhibition at the Open Society Institute, New York. His photographs have appeared in National Geographic, Geo, Newsweek, and theSunday Times Magazine, among other publications. His bestselling first book,Satellites: Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union, was published in 2006 by Aperture. In 2007, the Paris Review received a National Magazine Award for Bendiksen's project The Places We Live.

KENYA. Nairobi. 2005

2012 Rainfall, Bangladesh

BANGLADESH. Kurigram District. 2010

GEORGIA. Abkhazia. Sukhumi. 2005

In Siberia, spaceships fall from the sky. Space junk collectors surrounded by white butterflies.

Moldavie. Transdniester. 2004

MOLDOVA. Transdniester. 2004 

Nepal's Maoist Revolution

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. People waiting for the morning bus in the freezing winter.

Venezuela, Caracas, 2007