Joel Marklund, born 1985, has been working as a photographer since 2005. He is the Chief Photographer of Scandinavia’s nr 1 sports photo agency Bildbyrån. He has worked in more than 50 different countries and covered numerous international sports events around the world, among them the FIFA World Cup and nine Olympic Games. He started his career at the local newspaper NSD before moving on to Aftonbladet, Scandinavia’s biggest media outlet, in 2007. The same year he joined Bildbyrån as a staff photographer and in 2013 became the chief photographer of the agency.