Jens Assur is a Swedish photographer, director, scriptwriter and film producer.

Early career

Jens Assur started his career at Dagbladet in Sundsvall, as a reporter and photographer, 1986-1990.
In 1990-1997 he was employed as a staff photographer at Expressen

Expressen

Expressen is one of two nationwide evening tabloid newspapers in Sweden, the other being Aftonbladet. Expressen was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and slogans "it stings" or "Expressen to your rescue", always on the reader's side....

, a daily newspaper in Scandinavia.
He produced several photo essays from Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa and former Yugoslavia amongst other countries earning a Photographer of the year at the age of 23. In 1997 Assur left Expressen to start his company Studio Jens Assur and worked on art and film projects.

During the 1990:s Jens Assur was devoted to depict developing countries, but in recent years he has switched focus to the industrialized parts of the world. Examples of these are his works This is My Time, This is My Life, Hunger and Thailand – A Charter Paradise.

In addition to his art and film projects, Jens Assur is lectures and is featured on news programmes and television magazines.

Photography

• Under the Shifting Skies/Och himlen därovan (1997–2001) is one of the largest such project in Scandinavian history. It comprises two books of 256 pages each and a travelling exhibition with 70 photographic images blown up to 1.5 x 2 meters. The exhibition was itinerant and attracted a record attendance of 80,000 at its opening at Arbetets museum in Norrköping.

• In 1999 Jens work was featured in LIFE
  Life
  Life is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased , or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate...
  
   magazine in a special-edition issue in connection with the Olympic Games in Sydney.

• This is My Time, This is My Life (2003–2006) depicts Stockholm youth via Polaroid instant images. The exhibition was launched at the Moderna Museet
  Moderna Museet
  Moderna museet, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, that was first opened in 1958. Its first manager was Pontus Hultén...
  
   in Stockholm, 2006. .

• In 2006, Assur worked for the Swedish Red Cross on their marketing campaign, Victims of War. The project portrayed the daily lives of victims of war in Sudan
  Sudan
  Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
  
   and Democratic Republic of Congo and resulted in a record-breaking fundraising drive.

• I Can See the World From Here (2007) was a project based on photos taken with a pocket camera, and was exhibited at Färgfabriken in Stockholm.

• Hunger (2009–2010) was a photographic project that comprises five photography books and was sent to influential public opinion makers ahead of the Swedish general election in 2010 stirring debate in the media. Eventually the project culminated in a 1000-square meters large exhibition at Kulturhuset
  Kulturhuset
  Opened in 1974, Kulturhuset is a cultural centre to the south of Sergels Torg in central Stockholm. It is a controversial symbol for Stockholm and the growth of modernism in Sweden...
  
   in Stockholm.

• Thailand – A Charter Paradise (2011) is an Artist’s book consisting of handmade photo albums, produced in a limited signed and number edition of 250, focusing on Swedes travels to Thailand.

Filmography

• The Last Dog in Rwanda (2006), Jens Assur’s writing and directing debut portraying the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the short film was shot in South Africa and Sweden. Two of Sweden’s most acclaimed actors, Reine Brynolfsson
  Reine Brynolfsson
  Reine Claes-Göran Brynolfsson is a Swedish actor.-Selected filmography:*The Serpent's Way *In the Shadow of the Raven *The White Viking *Svart Lucia *House of Angels...
  
   and Jonas Karlsson
  Jonas Karlsson
  Sven Bert Jonas Karlsson is an Swedish actor and author.Karlsson was born in Södertälje. He won a Guldbagge-Award for Best Actor in 2004 for the movie Details. He published his first book, a collection of short stories, in 2007....
  
  , played the main characters. Drawing from Assur’s experiences as a war photographer, the film won numerous international awards including the Grand Prix at Clermont Ferrand and Best Film at Tribeca Film Festival
  Tribeca Film Festival
  The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
  
  , as well as prizes at film festivals in Sydney and Rome among others.
• Killing the Chickens, to Scare the Monkeys (2011) is a short film set in the People's Republic of China. The film was one of 25 films featured at the 2011 Cannes film festival
  Cannes Film Festival
  The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
  
  in the Director’s Fortnight category).

Director and Screenwriter

• 2006 - The Last Dog in Rwanda (short film)
• 2011 – Killing the Chickens, to Scare the Monkeys (short film)