Anne-Stine Johnsbråten (b.1983) is an independent documentary photographer living in Oslo, Norway.

Johnsbråten mainly works with personal projects, combining reporting with portrait work to explore topics such as gender, identity and discrimination. Several of her long-term projects have been shown in renowned galleries and festivals in Norway and abroad, such as Henie Onstad Art Center and The House of Photography in Oslo, Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism in Hannover and Cortona on the Move in Italy.

In 2017, she was artist in residence at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, USA, and she won first prize in Norwegian Picture of the Year 2016 for Best Documentary Abroad for «Good Wife, Wise Mother». In 2015 TIME mentioned her in the article as one of «Eight Norwegian photographers you need to follow» and in 2012 she received the Tribute Prize from The Freedom of Expression Foundation in Norway for her work «The Norwegian Roma».

She has been published in The Guardian, TIME, Liberation, Helsingin Sanomat, Conscientious Photography Magazine, Yahoo Japan, Modern Times Review, Aftenposten and A-magasinet, Morgenbladet, VG, Dagsavisen, Klassekampen, Bergens tidene, Henne, Fotografi, and many more.  

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