Some photos I took of the actor Per Christian Ellefsen in Italy. He has bought a large, old housing complex in the city of Tripoli in Italy that he’s going to restore.  Here are some of the pictures:

In the city of Kolkata in India more than 15 million people lives. The city is famous for their yellow taxis, the Ambassador. In 2000 it was over 30.000 taxis in the city. I tried capturing the different faces that hides behind the ambassador of Kolkata.

I am nominated to Picture of Year in Norway. Last year I won 3. price for sport image and honorable mention for a multimedia. 3000 pictures where sent in to the competition this year. I don’t know which photo I have will win for, but you can see the photos I sent in here.

Here you can read a small interview with me about the nomination.

In this weeks portrait in the multimedia-series we meet Svein Erik Ysland who works at the smelting plant, Elkem Thamshavn in Orkanger, Norway. You can see the portrait here. 

Some of the photos I took to one of four stories I made with journalist Kjersti in Jerusalem, Israel for VG Helg. The story is about the food that brings all the religions and people in Jerusalem together, and that’s Hummus. It is a traditional food made from cooked and mashed chickpeas. They serve this with very many meals as well as alone. It is very good, you shold try!

We were one week in Jerusalem. We where also one day in the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Both places are very interesting to visit. The conflict is not so visible on the surface except from checkpoints and big walls between the two regions. Is is first when you begin talking to people that you understand how deep the conflict goes. There is a lot of segregation and racism. We where also integrated for half an hour by the Israeli boarder control when leaving the country. They went through our luggage, photos and checked our stories beacuse we where journalists.