ABOUT

Award winning Aleksander Nordahl has for years been one of Norway´s finest photojournalists. Nordahl was born in 1971 and studied at the Norwegian Institute of Journalism. He worked at the Norwegian news agency NTB from 1992 to 1997, when he joined Dagbladet. From 2007 until end 2023 Nordahl has been working at Dagens Næringsliv as an editor, journalist, photo- and videojournalist. He is also the creator of a documentary podcast series in DN.

Now he works full time on his ocean projects as a visual artist, lecturer and advisor. He is represented by Galleri Fineart Oslo. He is also an international Canon Ambassador and Frivannsliv Ambassador.

Through the years Nordahl has produced national and international documentary stories as well as portraits and features. As a photojournalist he has portrayed human kindness and beauty, but also the cruelty and suffering of war, capitalists and drug addicts, dramatic news events and small children in happy play.

His photos have won many national and international awards, among them prizes in the prestigious World Press Photo competition. He has also won the Norwegian Photo of the Year Prize twice, in 2017 with a picture from the war zone in East Aleppo, Syria and 1999 from Kosovo. He was also shortlisted in World Photography awards and the professional competition for the series “The White Whale”. He has won International Reporters Journalist pris in 2012 and the Norwegian Storyteller award 2020/2021. Still, his passion is freediving underwater photography and now he uses his skills in several projects about the oceans. With his series of “At One Breath-photos” Nordahl has taken his works into the art world, and have had several exhibitions with very good revues. His photographs has been exhibited in the Oslo Opera house, at Ellingsen & Worsøe, Kunstforeningen Verdens Ende and is a part of the permanent outdoor exhibition at Skrova Outdoor (SOPS). His photographs has been be exhibited across the Norwegian coast where most of his work is done, from Filétfabrikken in the popular coastal village of Nyksund to a part of the REV exhibition in Bomuldsfabrikken in Arendal. In 2023 his exhibition “Jungel.” could be viewed in Bergen and at Stokkøya. His photographs has also been bought for many architectural projects, both nationally and abroad. The fall of 2023 he represented Galleri Fineart at the Oslo Negativ Fotofestival. In April/May 2024 he had the solo exhibition “Oxygen” at Galleri Finearts Oslo.