Nora Lorek

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.