Halden Krog is an award-winning freelance photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa having spent the past 25 years covering news politics and sporting events both nationally and internationally.
After studies at Vaal University of Technology, he set out for the UK spending several years traveling and freelancing as a photographer covering conflicts in the Balkans and Middle East.
He returned to South Africa in 1999 taking up a position at Beeld Newspaper where he excelled in covering breaking news and sport earning Media 24 multiple Fuji Press Awards and its first World Press Award with his coverage of the Tsunami that struck Bande Ache, Indonesia. In 2006 he joined the SundayTimes group working for the newly formed Times Newspaper where his experience in News Photography helped the young publication go from strength to strength and gaining continental recognition with an CNN African Photographer of the Year award for his coverage of the Xenophobic violence that swept the country.
In 2014 Halden moved back into the freelance realm covering a wide variety of photographic genres for The UK based Mail on Sunday and The Times of London with his work appearing in international renowned publications such as TIME, News Week, Stern and Paris Match. In 2019 Halden broadened his horizons into the TV space as both a camera operator and a behind the scenes and unit still photographer.