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He began his professional career in the mid-1940s as a freelance photographer, working frequently for the publisher Åhlen & Åkerlund of Stockholm.

One of his earliest assignments was covering the liberation of Norway in 1945 during World War II.

Some of his early photo essays, notably A Midwife in Lapland ( 1945 ), Polar Bear Hunting in Spitzbergen ( 1947 ), and Fishermen at the Congo River ( 1948 ), brought him international attention after publication in Life, Illustrated, Picture Post, and elsewhere.