Awards

  • 2017: 2nd Prize, Domestic news story, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2016: 3rd Prize, Foreign news story, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2015: 1st Prize, News singles, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2015: 2nd Prize, Portrait, Picture of the Year Norway 
  • 2015: 2nd Prize, Personal work, Gullsnitt
  • 2014: Award of Excellence, Feature, Pictures of the Year International
  • 2014: 2nd Prize, Foreign documentary, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2014: 3rd Prize, Climate & Environment, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2013: 2nd Prize, Daily life, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2012: 1st Prize, Sports feature story, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2012: 2nd Prize, Daily life, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2012: 3rd Prize, Sport action, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2012: 2nd Prize, Personal work, Gullsnitt 
  • 2012: 2nd Prize, Portrait, Schibsted Award
  • 2012: 3rd Prize, Feature story, Schibsted Award
  • 2012: 1st Prize, Sports story, Prix de la Photographie Paris
  • 2012: Honorable mention, Feature story, Prix de la Photographie Paris
  • 2011: 1st Prize, Sport feature story, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2011: 2nd Prize, News story, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2011: 2nd Prize, Domestic documentary,  Picture of the Year Norway 
  • 2011: 3rd Prize, Domestic documentary,  Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2011: 1st Prize, Feature story, Prix de la Photographie Paris
  • 2011: 3rd Prize, Feature story, Prix de la Photographie Paris 
  • 2011: Runner up (top five, Jacob Riis Award
  • 2010: 3rd Prize, Foreign documentary, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2010: Honorable mention, Multimedia, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2009: Honorable mention, Portrait story, Prix de la Photographie Paris
  • 2007: 1st Prize, Sport feature story, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2003: 1st Prize, Domestic documentary, Picture of the Year Norway
  • 2001: 3rd Prize, Sport story, Picture of the Year Norway

 

Exhibitions/screenings/other

  • 2017: Norwegian Journal of Photography #4 (the book will be released in 2019)
  • 2017: Screening:  A Memoir of a Boy, Transizioni Photo Festival, Italy
  • 2016: Photobook: En natt flyr jeg (One Night I'll Fly Away), Hertervig Forlag
  • 2016: Screening: European Route 39, Slideluck Potshow, Naples
  • 2013: Screening & lecture: Norwegian Landscapes, Pecha Kucha, DOGa, Oslo
  • 2012: Photobook: Bergen, Skald Forlag 
  • 2012: Screening: A Memoir of a Boy, Brighton Photo Fringe
  • 2012: Screening: Norwegian Landscapes, Slideluck Potshow, Dublin
  • 2012: Screening: A Memoir of a Boy, Slideluck Potshow, London
  • 2010: Screening: A Memoir of a Boy, Slideluck Potshow, Oslo
  • 2010: Group exhibition: Vestlandsutstillingen, Norway
  • 2009: Group exhibition: Portrait Now, The Nordic countries
  • 2008: Group exhibition: Sort of Safe, The Nordic countries
  • 2008: Selected for the Nordic Masterclass/Sort of Safe photo book
  • 2007: Group exhibition: Second Cities, Kosice, Slovakia
  • 2005: Solo exhibition, Eikholt Centre for the Deafblind, Norway

 

Education 

  • 1995-1998: Cand.mag/MA, University of Bergen, Norway

 

Interviews