Scandinavian photographer Bjørn-Owe “Bo” Holmberg was born 1959 in Sweden, and raised in Norway. After ten years in Oslo and the U.S. (San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest), he now resides in the charming little town of Kongsberg, up in the hills and mountains of Norway.

Bo has worked as a full-time professional photographer since 1981, and is a member of Oslo-based photo agency Samfoto, who represent him in Norway. He shoots stories ranging from conflict-areas and aids to adventure and nature. Through the years, he has worked for - and been published - in international newspapers from Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter, Bangkok Post and the Los Angeles Times to magazines like Spain’s Cambio16 and The Sunday Times Magazine in London. He works on a regular basis for award-winning Norwegian daily Dagbladet, has worked as a stringer for Associated Press and for Paris-based agencies Gamma and SIPA, covering conflict-areas (eastern Europe, Asia, southern Africa, central America) for several years, as well as for the Norwegian News Agency (Scanpix) and today does work for the SOS Children’s Villages in both Africa and South America.

He has been a main contributor to two books, one about the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway and one called “Norway in pictures”.

His hometown hosts the annual Kongsberg Jazz Festival, and neighbouring town of Notodden have their blues festival, giving Bo the opportunity to have a collection of the world’s leading jazz & blues-musicians in his files: B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Joshua Redman, Diane Krall, Pat Metheny, Nigel Kennedy, Robert Cray, Miriam Makeba, Johnny Winter, Canned Heat, Jeff Healey to name just a few from the last couple of years.

Holmberg works mostly with people living in remote corners of the world - combining a passion for nature with the art of photography, focusing on the interaction of man and wilderness. He travels with bush-pilots and outfitters in the Canadian Rockies, joins the shepherds in Transylvania and the Sami reindeerherders in the Arctic, fishermen on the rugged Norwegian coast, hunters in the forests and mountains, wildlife biologists caught in the conflict between predators and farmers and drives through the African bush with health-and social workers.

Being surrounded by the beauty of mountains, lakes and forests, landscape and nature becomes a major part of Bo Holmbergs photography - and everyday life.