Ragnar Axelsson needs no introduction. In the photography community, RAX is known as a great explorer and documentary maker of the Arctic. For more than 40 years, he has been photographing the environment in which the people of the north exist: hunters and fishermen, farmers and herders, their faithful dogs and polar bears wandering at the foot of majestic glaciers. RAX is our 16th member of the NCU!

Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Faces of the North

Rax’s first series on the NCU Faces of the North, tells the story of harsh life in the northern latitudes of Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It is a story, above all, about people and their characters, forged in harsh conditions of existence while preserving traditional ways of life and adapting to the unforgiving changes in the modern world.

Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

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Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Raúl Cañibano

Please welcome our new NCU member. Raúl Cañibano Ercilla was born in 1961 in Havana, the capital of Cuba. Based...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Dmitriy Cherba

Please welcome our new NCU member. Dmitriy Cherba was born in 1987, in the railway town of Uzlovaya, in the east...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Bielsko-Biała 2021

'The Don Steppe' 8 — 24 October, 2021 The Centre for Photography Foundation, within the framework of the 9. Foto Art...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Vitebsk 2021

'NCU is 15 years old' 23 — 27 June, 2021 Noga Creative Union presents an anniversary exhibition of documentary...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Odessa 2020

'The Thin Line' 21 August — 4 September, 2020 Noga Creative Union, within the framework of the Thin Line Photo...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Vitebsk 2020

'Odessa: Photos 1985' / 'New York before and after' 25 June — 5 July, 2020 Noga Creative Union, during the Covid-19...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Oleg Videnin

Please welcome our new NCU member. Oleg Videnin was born in 1963 in Bryansk, USSR. Based in Bryansk, Russia.
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Odessa 2020

'Odessa: Photos from 1985' 15 February — 6 March, 2020 Noga Creative Union and Paparazzi Photo Salon present...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Odessa 2019

'India: Dreaming of Varanasi' 14 — 30 June, 2019 Noga Creative Union presents an exhibition of black and white...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Sergey Nikolaev

Please welcome our new NCU member. Sergey Nikolaev was born in 1957 in Dnepropetrovsk in the east of Ukraine. Based...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Tartu 2019

'Chukotka is a land of loneliness' 4 February — 7 March, 2019 Noga Creative Union and the group OVER present...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Alexander Shchemliaev

Please welcome our new NCU member. Alexander Shchemlyaev, born Dubrovin, was born in 1956 in the Nanai camp...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

David Verberckt

Please welcome our new NCU member. David Verberckt was born in 1971 in Ostend, Belgium. Based in Budapest, Hungary.
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Narva 2018

'Chukotka is a land of loneliness' 10 November — 17 December, 2018 Grand Prix of the XXIV International Photo...
Ragnar Axelsson / New member NCU 2022. Noga Creative Union

Vitebsk 2018

'Ordinary Photos' 20 — 24 June, 2018 III International Festival of Photography “FotoKrok” named after Sigismund...