Audun Rikardsen
Norway
Growing up in a small fishing community in northern Norway, Audun developed a lifelong fascination with the Arctic’s landscape, culture and wildlife – both above and below the ocean’s surface. While he remains a part-time photographer, he’s a full-time professor in biology at the UiT Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. There he uses this combination to integrate photography into his scientific fieldwork and to inspire and share his scientific results with the public.