Jonas Bendiksen: Biography

Jonas Bendiksen is a magazine photographer based in New York City. Born in Norway in 1977, he moved to Russia in 1998 and lived in that country for two years while pursuing stories that lay outside the general news beat. Bendiksen, who has studied Russian and Arabic, continues to photograph the Central Asia and the rest of the former Soviet Union as well as the Middle East. His photo essays appear in many international publications, including the Sunday Times Magazine (London), GEO, Newsweek, and Mother Jones. He was awarded the 2002 Nikon/Sunday Times Magazine Ian Parry Memorial Award, the 2003 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and first prize in the University of Missouri's 2003 Pictures of the Year awards.