Trond Sørås Photographer

Assignment – Jens Glad Balchen, cycling the Race Across America

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4800 km on a bike, average of 4 hours of sleep each night for 12 nights. I don’t envy the guy.

Rigged the camera to my car with suction cups, attached two flashes to the windows and triggered shutter by remote. Drove beside the cyclist up and down an old unused road. Turned out quite nice I think.

Here is the article about him on Dagens Næringsliv’s website.

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Assignment – last weekend of snow in Røldal

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Went to Røldal for VG to shoot people using the skiresort in Røldal. It’s the resort that has been open the longest this season. The slopes were almost empty, but I found some French snowboarders who ride for Volcom who’d been there for a week on a photoshoot. They were having a relaxed day after a hard week.

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Olivier Gittler

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Arthur Longo. Clearly a montage.

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Mister Podsoll entertaining at the afterski party.

From the archive – scenes from Mumbai

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Had to go into my archive from last year to find some specific pictures for a friend, and found these.

From when I was in Mumbai in February of last year on an assignment on surrogacy in India.

These are random pictures from going from place to place.

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Assignment – Runners in Eldoret, for Plot

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9 out of 10 world record holders for the marathon are Kenyan, and they’re all from Eldoret.

So why do white people even try? At their best they can never beat the runners from Kenya, they’re not even close.

Published in a 31-page spread in the newest addition to the Norwegian magazine flora – PLOT.

Some of these were in the article, some of them didn’t make the cut.

Also, they’re in no particular order.

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21 kilometers uphill. At the 11 km mark
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Sunrise in Eldoret, around 5 am
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Sindre Buraas at the office
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Kenyan runner training
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Runners stretching after workout
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Winner of New York marathon, Edna Kiplagat, at airport in Eldoret
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Kipchoge (“Kip”) Keino at Eldoret country club
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Kip Keinos childrens home
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Runners are everywhere in Eldoret
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View of Rift Valley
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Stretching after workout
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Sindre Buraas at the office
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Relaxing after workout
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Workout
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Getting some sleep en route to uphill workout
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Sindre Buraas after finishing 21 km uphill run
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Carbohydrates are usually bad, but needed after heavy workouts

Assignment – Kaizers Orchestra and Tore Renberg with play

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Janove of Kaizers.
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Some of the actors in the play.
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Janove of Kaizers in front, and writer Tore Renberg in the back.

Sometimes the press relations people go out of their way to make my job way easier than it should be. This is how press conferences should be.

Cycling pro Lene Byberg – assignment DN

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Golf talent – assignment DN

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Marthe Wold, age 15, is Norways biggest girl golf talent. She has played golf since she was 8, and has already achieved a handicap of 0.

This was a piece done as part of a series on young sport talents in Norway.

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Assignment – travel piece on Pulpit Rock Basecamp for VG

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Assignment – Thomas Dybdahl for Dagens Næringsliv

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First ever black and white assignment. First b/w-conversion in years. The first of the three pics ran on a full page in DN saturday 29. May.

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Parachute tandem jump

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This guy got a tandem parachute jump for his 35th birthday.

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