Bente Haarstad is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Mid-Norway. Among other things she does editorial photos for newspapers and magazines, documentary, fine-art, landscapes, nature, urban life, wild life, arctic life, wild flowers, agriculture.
One of her main interests are to describe the life of the reindeer herders in Mid-Norway, the sami or lap people, the indigionous people of Norway and Sweden who consist of few individuals living and working in vast areas in the mountains.