Hey, there are some cool stairs. Let's ski down the stairs while doing crazy tricks.Thats what Magnus Støre and his friends does. They try and find the coolest locations and make insane videos and pictures of their stunts around in Oslo.Here is a story in this weekends VG Helg of the guys.
Norwegian real estate developer Olav Thon at the the Supervisory Council at Norges Bank last week. By the way, the 89 year old Olav was listed at Forbes List of Billionaires as the 368th richest person in the world in 2008.
Last week I did an assignment for The New York Times in Hordaland, Norway. They did a story on how the hostage attack on a gas field in Algerie affected Norway. Five Norwegians working for Statoil where killed in the attack. Two of them came from the small county of Austrheim in Hordaland. It was difficult to try and link the attack in Algerie with Austrheim in the pictures. I tried to solve this by photographing the oil refinery Mongstad which is located in Austrheim. We also talked and photographed the mayor Per Lerøy. He has worked for Statoil for 25 years before he became Major. He also knew one of the affected families from the attack.The pictures where featured in International Herald Tribune as well as The New York Times. (I have not yet obtained a paper copy of the NYT, though.)Here are the link to the story.
These are some of the pictures I have submitted to the Picture of Year-award in Norway. Today I received the message that I am nominated for an award. With which picture I won't know until the award ceremony on March 15th. From before I have three awards in the Norwegian Picture of the Year.You cas see all the nominees here.Here are some of the stories I submitted:- Fight for democracy in Burma- The hunting twins in Troms- Taxi Gaze- 45 of 5 millions