Photojournalism nominee

After the earthquake
The earthquake 70 kilometers north of Palu was followed by three gigantic waves reaching towards the sky and hitting the mosque on the Sulawesi island in Indonesia. People had just gathered for the Friday prayer in the Arkam Rahman Babu mosque when the second wave, according to witnesses six meters high, rushed in over the mosque, leaving rubble and death behind it. Palu, Indonesia, October 7, 2018

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck Indonesia’s central Sulawesi province on September 28, 2018, triggering a tsunami and landslides that caused widespread destruction and loss of life. More than 2,000 people were known to have died and 4,400 were seriously injured, according to the Indonesia Disaster Management Agency.

Lotta Härdelin (b. 1972) has worked as a photojournalist since the age of 17, when she started her career as a photographer on a local newspaper, ”Nerikes Allehanda” in Örebro, Sweden.

She became a staff photographer at Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest morning paper, in 1993. For the last 20 years she has worked in many different positions at Bonnier Mediahouse: Picture Editor, Head of Graphics Department, Chief Photo Editor, News Editor, and Head of the Visual Department and a member of the Editorial leadership.

From 2013 she has been part of Dagens Nyheters visual department and mainly works as a visual story teller in both still pictures and video. Her focus on climate change, freedom of speech, non-discrimination and human rights has taken her on assignments to all parts of the World.