Nora is a documentary storyteller focusing on migration, culture, and human rights.
Born in Germany and based in Gothenburg, Sweden she available for assignments world wide and happy to work with local collaborators.
In recent years she has been approaching stories with a long term perspective. Working in refugee camps and informal settlements, accompanying refugees and migrants on their way across the borders of Europe and Eastern Africa, and showing the solidarity of those in need of protection.
In 2016 Nora was the first Swede to win the College Photographer of the Year award, which led her to National Geographic and a five-year project in Bidibidi, Uganda, one of the world’s largest refugee camps.
Nora is the co-founder of the Milaya Project, a non-profit that started as an assignment for National Geographic and now connects South Sudanese women in Bidibidi refugee camp with customers who want to support their traditional artform.
Nora is represented by Panos Pictures and is available for news, magazine and commercial assignments.
Feel free to reach out in English, Swedish or German.
CONTACT
nora.lorek@gmail.com
Instagram: noralorek
Sweden: + 46 706 16 35 25
Uganda: +256 740 910 197
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2022
Pictures of the Year International: Daily Life Story – Award of Excellence
2020
CAP Prize 2020 for Contemporary African Photography, Shortlisted
Joop Swart Masterclass, Nominee
Johannapengen by the Swedish Publicists' Association
Scholarship by the cultural committee of Region Västra Götaland, Sweden
2019
Joop Swart Masterclass, Nominee
Picture of the year, Sweden: Feature – Third place
Sida-scholarship by Hiertanämnden
2018
Alfred Fried Photography Award
Documentary photography award by the Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden.
Julia Margaret Cameron Award: Women seen by Women
The 2018 Yunghi Grant
Joop Swart Masterclass, Nominee
Lucie Foundation Scholarship, Shortlisted
2017
Pictures of the Year International: Feature –Award of Excellence
Helsingborgs Dagblads Photo Award 2017
Getty Images Instagram Grant, Honorable Mention
Shortlisted for Felix Schoeller Photo Award
2017, Photojournalism/Editorial Photography
Emilia Bergmark-Jiménez 30-års stipendium
2016
CPOY71:College Photographer of the Year
Feature –Gold
Documentary –Silver
Interpretive Project –Award of Excellence
Malmöstipendiet
Stiftelsen Bakom Bilden
EDUCATION
2013-16 Mid Sweden University Sundsvall – Bachelor of Arts with a major in Photojournalism 2018 Swedish Army – HEAT – Hostile Environment Awareness Training
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 – European Jungle and Milaya, Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 – European Jungle and Patterns of Home, Landskrona Museum, Sweden
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 – Women: A Century of Change, Usina den Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019-2020 – Women: A Century of Change, National Geographic Museum, Washington D.C. 2019 – Free From Hunger, More London Riverside development, London, UK
2018 – Women in Photography, Chapel Gallery at Objectifs, Singapore
2018 – Women Photojournalists of Washington at IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC.
2017 – Getty Images Instagram Grant, Getty Images Gallery, London, UK.
2016 – A Family of Strangers, European Jungle at Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm, Sweden.
2016 – European Jungle at PArt of Us at Central Saint Martins, London, UK.
SELECTED CLIENTS
National Geographic, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Expressen, Die Zeit, Göteborgs- Posten, Tidningen VI, Arbetet, Amnesty International, Concern, TT News Agency, Spiegel, Capital, Rädda Barnen
Represented by Panos Pictures, +44 (0) 20 3322 8382 Adrian Evans Director adrian@panos.co.uk – Michael Regnier Editor & Archive Sales michael@panos.co.uk