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Jonas Bendiksen, Satellites, 2000. Travels through the fringes of the former Soviet Union. Clothbound copy of Magnum Contact Sheets in presentation case, containing an individual contact sheet selected from a series of 10, in an edition of 50.

Jonas Bendiksen focuses on the forgotten stories behind the big headlines of world events. Born in 1977, he spent several years in Russia photographing stories from the fringes of the former Soviet Union, later published as the book ‘Satellites’ (2006). In 2005, with a grant from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, he started working on The Places We Live, a project on the growth of urban slums across the world, which combines still photography, projections and voice recordings to create three-dimensional installations. Bendiksen has received numerous awards, including the 2003 ‘Infinity Award’ from the International Center of Photography, New York, and first prize in the ‘Pictures of the Year’ International Awards. His editorial clients include National Geographic, Geo, Newsweek, the Independent on Sunday Review, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph Magazine, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative of great diversity and distinction founded in 1947 by four pioneering photographers: Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour. Today it is still owned by its photographer members, who with powerful individual vision, chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events, issues and personalities.