Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen searches for stories that get left behind in the race for the daily headlines. He calls them journalistic orphans. He believes that often the most worthwhile and convincing images tend to lurk within the hidden, oblique stories that fly just below the radar. [Filmed at TEDxMaastricht]
Jonas began his career as an intern at the London office of Magnum Photos. After a year, he left for Russia to start his own career as a photographer. He fell madly in love with the former USSR, spent some years in the region, and produced his first book ‘Satellites: Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union’.
Jonas says he has ‘always been fascinated by enclaves and people living in isolated communities’. In 2008 this fascination led to the book and exhibition called ‘The Places We Live’, a three-year journey through four slum communities around the world.
Jonas has received numerous awards, including the 2003 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography and the first prize in the Pictures of the Year International Awards. His photographs have appeared in National Geographic, Geo, Newsweek, and the Sunday Times Magazine, among others. In 2007, the Paris Review received a National Magazine Award for Jonas’ project The Places We Live.
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10 сен 2024
