Editorial and corporate photographer based in Oslo
I look forward to contributing to your project with my photography.
ILJA C. HENDEL FOTOGRAF
Sagveien 23a | 0459 Oslo | Norway
Organisation Nr: 991320857 MVA / VAT
+47 90855081 | post@iljahendel.com
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About
I collaborate with corporate and commercial clients, agencies, publishing houses, and leading magazines on corporate and editorial assignments across Norway, Scandinavia, and internationally.
My photography is rooted in authenticity, capturing subjects on location with a deep understanding of their context.
By combining professional preparation, experience, and creative intuition, I create candid and compelling images across diverse themes and individual. Always with professional dedication and empathy. With this mindset, I approach every commission as if it were my own personal project.
Assignments
Corporate branding photography
I specialize in intuitive, observational corporate branding photography, capturing authentic moments at company headquarters, organizations— governmental and non-governmental, and leading agencies—on location and mostly un-staged. The photography highlights a brand’s identity, culture, and professionalism through natural executive portraits, workplace interactions, office environments, or illustrative photographs that convey a client’s key themes. The images are used in company websites, employee recruiting, social media profiles, marketing and advertising materials, press releases, media kits, internal and B2B communications, annual reports, corporate presentations, and curated image libraries.
Editorial photography
With experience for reportage and portrait assignments for international magazines and papers I very much appreciate to visually tell stories - my initial start to professional photography.
Portraiture
I am dedicated to capturing people on location with an empathetic approach—whether ministers, CEOs, politicians, professionals, artists, or everyday individuals.
Event photography
Event photography for selected high-level clients. Official photographer for conferences and high-level visits for corporate clients and organizations, including:
Oslo Forum (Humanitarian Dialogue / Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA)
Skagen Fondene, Nor-Shipping, Styretinstituttet, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Getty Images Corporate
References available upon request.
Taking pictures of World Chess Champion
Magnus Carlsen for the Financial Times - while NRK was filming
Clients
Agencies
TANK Design, PR operatørene, fotogloria | büro für fotografische zusammenarbeit (Hamburg), Phenster Amsterdam, Aksel (Oslo), A4 text og form (Gøteborg), Aflo (Tokyo), Agence ´VU (Paris), Anagram Design (Oslo), Anyone AS (Oslo), C3 Creative Code and Content (Berlin / Munich), influenceassociates (London), Ink Global (London / New York), intellecta (Stockholm), Kontrapunkt (Copenhagen), Kung og Partners (Stockholm), Laif Photos und Reportagen (Köln), R SPOON Svergie, Starcom Media (Oslo), Tindre Design (Oslo), Zynk (Oslo)
Corporations and Companies
OBOS, MAN Energy Systems, SPK Statenspensjonskasse, Skagenfondene, Foodora, Sykehuspartner, VIPPS, Akastor, Vokstr, Aabo Evensen, , Accenture Norway, Aker ASA, Aker Solutions AS, ArcTern Ventures Inc., Argentum Asset Management, Bristol-Myers Squibb Norway, Den Norske Opera & Ballett, DHL Group, Helse Sør-Øst, iARK, Mnemonic, Nord Pool Group, PonCAT, Porsche Center Oslo, PwC, Rørentreprenørene Norge, Schneider Electric US, Takeda, Thema Consulting Group, United Airlines.
GO/NGO
Patentstyret, Fritt Ord, Datatilsynet, Direktorat for Eksport og Sanksjoner DEKSA, Oslo Kommune EBY, Utenriksdepartement, Kulturdepartementet, DNVA Den Norske Videnskaps Akademi, Humanitarian Dialogue - Oslo Forum, NFFO Norsk Faglitterær Forfatter- og Oversetterforening, NHO Abelia, NHO Mat og Drikke, Styreinstituttet, Direktoratet for Byggkvalitet DIBK, Arbeidsliv i Norden, Bibliotekarforbundet, Goethe-Institut, Helsedirektoratet, Institute for applied ecology, Kommunal- og Moderniseringsdepartementet, Nasjonalforeningen for Folkehelsen, Norsk Nærings- og Nytelsesmiddelarbeiderforbund NNN, Science in Dialogue, SOAS University of London, The Norwegian Embassies abroad.
Magazines
DER SPIEGEL, Le Monde, WIRED Japan, Quanta Magazine, brand eins, die tageszeitung, DIE ZEIT, Financial Times, Focus Magazin, LFI Leica Fotografie International, Madame Figaro, Magazin Sonntagsblick, PROSA, Svenska Dagblad, SZ-Magazin
On assignment for Agence VU´ for TBWA, Nissan Europe
Syndication
Selected reportage, feature, and editorial portraiture photographs are available for global licensing through
LAIF Photos & Reportagen in Germany and and its partner agencies.
and
ADOBE PREMIUM contributing photographer portfolio.
Some Reportage-, feature and editorial portraiture can be also licensed in Norway via:
NTB (search for Ilja Hendel)
For international distribution please contact Laif international partner network as:
APA-Picturedesk Vienna/Austria, amanaimages Tokyo/Japan, Camera Press London/England, Contrasto Milan, Rome/Italy, Cordon Press Madrid/Spain, glowimages Sao Paulo/Brazil, Hollandse Hoogte The Hague/Netherlands, Imaginechina Shanghai/China, Keystone CH Zurich/Switzerland, R.E.A. Paris/France, Redux New York/USA
Working with Leica SL and M system
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Awards & Exhibitions
Photography “Three Deathmasks Baader, Ensslin, Raspe” in the exhibition Image Profile – Aspects of the Documentary in MMK’s Photography Collection, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. 23 March – 15 July. (2018)
First Prize Reportage German Award for Science Photography for the photo series Wood Detectives at the Thünen-Institute, commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. (2013)
Language in Pictures – Solo photo exhibition at Goethe-Institut Oslo, with opening during Oslo Kulturnatt, featuring photographs from book projects commissioned by Goethe-Institut and Deutscher Sprachrat. (2012)
Hansel-Mieth-Award – Photoreportage Bastøy Prison Island, commissioned by Der Spiegel. (2012)
Award “Highly Commended” – International contest Art of Building, London. (2012)
Ormen Lange – 4 black and white photographs exhibited at Nordic Light Photography Festival, Kristiansund, Norway. (2011)
Wohlfahrtsmarke – Social Projects in Germany – Commissioned by Mediacompany Berlin for the Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany. Exhibited in Berlin and several German cities. (2006)
Three Deathmasks – Black and white photography in the exhibition and collection of Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. (2004ff.)
Tamam, Higher Education in Sudan – 25 color photographs from Sudan, commissioned by the German Academic Exchange Organisation / Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Bonn, Germany. (2002)
Gesichter der Flut – 25 medium-format black and white portraits, commissioned by Caritas International. Exhibited in Dresden, Berlin, Weimar, Germany. (2003)
The Wall – Berlin 1989/90 – Exhibition at Lagerhalle, Osnabrück, Germany. (1990)
On assignment for NFFO on a ferry in Rogaland, 2023
Talks & Interviews
Videochat with Heinrich Böll Foundation Baden-Württemberg
Corona in Europa: Norwegen Vorher-Nachher-Mittendrin
Interview with fotogloria about photography during Corona Crisis:
Faces of Photography: Ilja C. Hendel Oslo
Creative Mornings talk about Justice from a photographers and personal perspective:
Where Justice is a game
Interview with Online Magazine University of Freiburg:
"Interview about early photography on student topics back in the 1990´s."
Interview with Leica Camera Blog about the reportage on Bastøy Prison Island:
Crime and Penance on Bastoy
Interview with Alumni Magazine University of Freiburg:
"Ich mag es, Vorgänge zu beobachten und visuell zu verdichten."
Background
Since 1997, I have worked full-time as a photographer, with a strong focus on reportage photography for newspapers and weekend magazines in Germany and internationally, including assignments in the Western Balkans, Sudan, Beijing, and beyond.
Around the early 2000s, I took an interlude to gain industry experience from the other side, working at the picture desk for die tageszeitung and the 2-million-copy member magazine Ver.di Publik in Berlin. Beyond my photographic work I hold a Master’s degree in Political Science, Social Anthropology, and Economics from the University of Freiburg, which has likely influenced my fieldwork-inspired approach to photography. Since 2005 I am living in Oslo.
Speaking Norwegian, German and English.
© 2026 ILJA C. HENDEL FOTOGRAF
Sagveien 23a
0459 Oslo
Norway
ORG: 991320857 MVA
+47 90855081
post@iljahendel.com
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