Jo Straube

Photojournalist

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

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.

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

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

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

Char Kaliganj, Dhaka. Bangladesh, 2009.

Bagan, Myanmar

Snow storm. Iceland, 2010

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

Prayers at a student's apartment. Bergen 2009.

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

Char Kaliganj, Dhaka. Bangladesh, 2009.

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

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

Karaj, Iran. 2008

Victim after hurricane Aila. Bangladesh, 2009.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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