Order from the chaos

Life kept going during Corona. In strange, terrifying but also marvelous ways. We have gathered some of the best photos taken by photographers at Schibsted’s newspapers 2021.

Top picture: A bridal party in Beirut having difficulty traversing the city during the improvised demonstrations against the deteriorating living conditions in the country.

H is an undocumented mother living with her two small children in Stockholm. She survives with help from The Church of Saint Clare, where she can get food and money for rent.

Swedish artist Stina Wollter details the loss of her father to Covid-19 as she was finishing the book on the last 30 years of her art career.

This is Vanda Ortega, from one of the worst Covid affected village in the Amazon, where the Brazilian mutation was born. There, the sick retreated into the Amazon and spread the virus throughout the rainforest.

Bjørn Flisram has been fascinated by the power of water since he was a child. Now, at 56, he takes care of his own dam and power plant.

Children, mostly refugees from other parts of Afghanistan, at the playground outside a large refugee camp. Sound of laughter and play. The air is hot. It smells of freshly cooked food and sewage at the same time. In Kabul, people await the next move of the Taliban regime.

Ahmed Umar is said to be the first gay Sudanese man to appear in public. Now, after fleeing to Norway, his art is representing the faceless bodies of queer people in Sudan.

Seventeen-month-old Artin Irannezhad was found on Karmøy after drowning with his family as they fled Iran in hopes of reaching England. Here, his uncle’s friends have just examined the casket on its way home to ​​Sardasht.

Lena Marie Hansen has 24 tattoos, several of them on her face. Most of them symbolise something important to her. “I’m a wandering eye-catcher, but it suits me fine.”