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Jonas Bendiksen

A man on skis hauls a log in Atlay, China—which other historians contend was the birthplace of skiing in 8000 B.C. Ancient wood-carved skis had various adaptations that made them suitable to their region: like horsehair on Altay skis that helped people climb uphill and glide downhill.

A petroglyph of a skier chasing an ibex. The earliest known image of skiing was carved into a rock like this one in Norway—leading many to speculate that the Scandinavian country was the ancient birthplace of the sport.

In Dharavi, a community in Mumbai, India, revellers dance and throw coloured powders as part of a festival celebrating the elephant-headed god Ganesh, who offers good luck. Dharavi is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a million people packed into less than one square mile.

Family life during the pandemic in Nesoddtangeen, Norway, where all the nursery schools are closed during the coronavirus outbreak.

Nesoddtangen, Norway: "We are having the first days of real spring, and all the foliage and flowers are starting to blossom," says photographer Jonas Bendiksen. "The quiet days without running off somewhere all the time has made me really grateful to have all this right where I live."

Nesoddtangeen, Norway: "My wife Anna is a doctor so she goes to work every day," says Jonas Bendiksen. "I photographed her as she was having her morning coffee and a well-deserved day of rest."

"I’m spending my days in the nutty, charming, and emotional rollercoaster world of two- and four-year-olds," says Jonas Bendiksen. "The world shrinks down and we’re in some sort of state of incredible right-here-and-nowness."

The Moinia Masjid mosque sits in Dharavi, India. More than 700,000 people live in this neighbourhood, which covers less than one square mile.

Believers in the Christ of Siberia walk past homes in Cheremshanka while on their way to a sermon delivered on a mountain above Obitel Rassveta, a village in Russia, in 2016.

The Bramaputra River, Bangladesh. Some river locations in Bangladesh carry antibiotic levels 300 times higher than is considered safe for the environment.