Jonas Bendiksen was born in Norway in 1977. At the age of 19 he interned at Magnum’s London office, before leaving for Russia to pursue work as a photojournalist. In Russia, Bendiksen photographed stories from the fringes of the former Soviet Union, a project that was published as the book Satellites (2006). His documentary of life in a Nairobi slum, Kibera, published in the Paris Review, won a National Magazine Award in 2007. His editorial clients include National Geographic, Geo, Newsweek, the Independent on Sunday Review, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph Magazine, and the Rockefeller Foundation.