Photo by Daniel Månsson / Kontinent

The scholarship is given out in cooperation with Vårgårda Photo Club in Sweden. The purpose of the scholarship is that, with Victor Hasselblads nature interest in mind, encourage nature photography in the Nordic countries.

Photo by Moa Karlberg / Kontinent

The exhibition runs until the 23th May at Galleri Kontrast in Stockholm.

The project ”Watching you watch me” is discovering how a photographer can get as close as possible to others, without acting illegal. I have taken portraits of people through a mirror, when they are totally unaware of my camera being on the inside. This way I get captions of people watching themselves.Since the pictures are taken in public space, I can publish them however I want to. But where and when does the single individual feel insulted?
-Moa Karlberg

Kontinent’s Moa Karlberg won first prize in Best Portrait Story of The Year, Anders Hansson wins second prize in the category Best International Photo Story and a third prize in the category Best Picture in International Spot News.

See all the winning pictures here.

On March 2 Kontinent Photographer Daniel Månsson releases his new book “Cold Water Surfing”.

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Kontinent Photographer Jacob Zocherman has been nominated to apply for participation in The Joop Swart Masterclass 2010, arranged by World Press Photo.

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Kontinent Photographers Moa Karlberg and Anders Hansson are nominated in The Swedish Picture of the Year 2010. The Prize Ceremony will be held in Örebro, Sweden in March 5. Congratulations!

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Photo by Jacob Zocherman / Kontinent

Kontinent´s Jacob Zocherman has been in Haiti to help the victims and document the earthquake disaster.

In a salt desert in southern Bolivia lies the world’s largest lithium reserves. The world’s car industry looks for environmentally friendly alternatives.

Lithium findings in Uyuni - Bolivia

Photo by Felipe Morales / Kontinent

Shanghai Shenhao driving school provides 18 000 new drivers with a license each year – and each one of these is planning to buy a car as soon as possible.

A suffocating success - China

Photo by Magnus Laupa / Kontinent

New ecological toiletts and wells are built to increase the life quality for some of Bolivia’s poorest inhabitants.

Fresh water project - Bolivia

Photo by Felipe Morales

Kontinent´s photographer Moa Karlberg has been nominated for the Scanpix photo prize (Scanpix stora fotopris 2009) together with Pieter ten Hoopen and Niklas Larsson.

Photo by Moa Karlberg / Kontinent

The project ”Watching you watch me” is discovering how a photographer can get as close as possible to others, without acting illegal. I have taken portraits of people through a mirror, when they are totally unaware of my camera being on the inside. This way I get captions of people watching themselves.Since the pictures are taken in public space, I can publish them however I want to. But where and when does the single individual feel insulted?

-Moa Karlberg

See the photos and hear Moa talk about them on Scanpix web (in Swedish)

Scans from The Sunday Times Magazine, Spectrum 30/8 2009.

“She survived a bomb blast, but her hands, face and stomach were severely burnt after a white phosphorus shell destroyed her home in al-Atatra in the northern part of Gaza during the bombardment by Israeli forces earlier this year. The white phosphorus is widely used to produce a ´smokescreen´to mask troop movements, white phosphorus is also controversially used in bombs. After landing on the skin it burns through muscle and bone and goes on burning until starved of oxygen. The Israeli military initially denied using it during its assault on Gaza but Amnesty International reported finding ´indisputable evidence´of its use in densely populated residential areas.” (Parts from the text in The Sunday Times Spectrum 30/8 2009.)

Farah survived miraculously after treatment in Egypt. But her mother died due to infections of her wounds, 3 months after the war. Today Farah is cared for by her grandmother.

Photo by Jonte Wentzel / Kontinent