Photographer Ken Opprann (b. 1958) has studied photography at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He was permanently associated with Aftenposten as a night photographer in the years 1995 to 2003, and is now a freelance photographer based in Oslo. Opprann prefers to work with reportage and documentary matters, and he has traveled and photographed all over the world. He has won a number of Norwegian and international awards for his work, including Årets Bilde in 2001 and the Fuji European Press Photographer Award in 2002. Opprann's publication TRO (2009), which dealt with the five major world religions, was awarded as one of the most important photo-documentaries the books that have ever been published in Norway.