Journalist & Photographer
Marcus Haraldsson

Science, environment, politics, history, human rights

Solutions, ideas, people

Local, global, interconnected

Selection of published reportage

Over the years I’ve covered stories from Latin America, Asia, Africa, North America, the Middle East, and Europe, here are some of them.

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Books & large projects

A lot happens when stories move beyond the - fast, surprising, and negative - daily news cycle, when we allow a focus on longer term change, people, and societies.

I have worked on over a dozen long-term projects, the longest spanning 35 years. Below are some of them.

The children who wanted to save the world
Book (1989-2023)
Foreword by Christiana Figueres,
the Chief Negotiator of the Paris Agreement

In the late 1980s, I was one among hundreds of thousands of children across 44 countries engaged in an ambitious project to save the rainforest.
Here, I returned to the children and forests to see what happened.

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Bordr etc.
Exhibitions, platforms, research (2010-2021)

It all started when I lent cameras to allow traders and migrants tell their own stories about crossing borders. Then, efforts developed through participation and facilitation into cultural management for democracy - across continents and back home - for over a decade.

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A Line Across China
Book and exhibitions (1999-2008)

As a young student of Mandarin, I bicycled across China from Tibet to Hong Kong. Seven years later, as a political journalist, I did it again to revisit people and places and describe the massive transformation of the world’s most populous country.

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