Jo Straube

Photojournalist

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1st prize "Daily Life" Picture of the Year Norway 2009.

From the series "Meltdown Iceland" that was awarded in Picture of the year Norway 2010.

Bagan, Myanmar

Ali came from Afghanistan as an illegal immigrant to Norway, after three rejections he was granted citizenship. With the Norwegian citizenship he could marry the girl he was hiding at. Bergen, 2009.

Prayers at a student's apartment. Bergen 2009.

André Villa doing a "backflip kiss of death" in his own FMX track in Torrevieja, Spain.

When Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne disappeared, hundreds volunteered in the search for find her. Oslo, 2012.

Roger, a mentally challenged 38-year old man with a long history of violence, had to commit murder before the Norwegian state provided him with the help and treatment he needed to deal with his mental disorder.

Afer the hurricane Aila hit the coast of Bangladesh in 2009, thousands of people moved their homes to safer areas.

Victim after hurricane Aila. Bangladesh, 2009.

Char Kaliganj, Dhaka. Bangladesh, 2009.

Ferry on the Buriganga river, near Dhaka. Bangladesh, 2009.

Harbor worker taking a bath after a long day. Chandpur, Bangladesh, 2009.

Karaj, Iran. 2008

From the series "Meltdown Iceland" that was awarded in Picture of the year Norway 2010.

Julian Assange taking some food at a "Food not bombs" kitchen in Reykjavik, Iceland (2010).

Snow storm. Iceland, 2010

Nightlife in the North with the Midnight sun touching the horizon. Lofoten, 2009

Audience at concert with The Spectacle. Bodø Hardcore festival, 2007.

Fishing for halibut. Lofoten, 2005.

Polish queers roadside somewhere between Sopot and Warzaw, 2006.

From the series "Meltdown Iceland" that was awarded in Picture of the year Norway 2010.

The Norwegian Minister of International Development and Minister of the Environment walking into the forest in Amazonas. Brasil, 2012.

Street party in Vila Autódromo. Rio de Janeiro, 2012.

Chocó, Colombia.

Despclacados. Florencia, Colombia.

Tora Aasland, then Minister of Research and Higher Education at a guided tour at the University of Bergen, 2009.

Bryggen in Bergen, a Unesco heritage site.