Lars Lindqvist is a photojournalist based in Stockholm, Sweden. As a staff photographer for the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, he gets to travel around the world. In 2008, Lindqvist won a World Press Photo second prize, in the General News category, for a story from Georgia – a place he revisited in 2010. This year, he made several trips to Japan during which he took the photos that earned him his second World Press Photo award.
