10 pages in Swedish Photo Magazine Camera Natura

10 pages in Swedish Photo Magazine Camera Natura

Kingdom of the Arctic Fox in CN no 1 2024

UK's Black + White Photography Magazine

UK's Black + White Photography Magazine

Mats Anderssons – Cover and 8 pages in NO 286 -24

Rewarded in Scandinavias largest Photo Contest

Rewarded in Scandinavias largest Photo Contest

Finalist x 2 Nordic Nature Photo Contest 2024

Rewarded

Rewarded

International Black & White Photography Contest

Mats Andersson Silver winner New York

Mats Andersson Silver winner New York

New York Photography Awards 2023


Mats Andersson konst- och naturfotograf Jönköping. Art and nature photogrpher Sweden. Leica ambassadör

UK's largest Photography Magazine writes in 2020:
"The artful dodger. Combining a profound artistic flair with a love of analogue darkroom techniques, Swedish legend Mats Andersson has turned his love of wildlife and landscapes into a hugely successful second career."

Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan writes in 2023:
Mats Andersson's pictures! As Ansel Adams filtered through Anders Petersen.

Mats Andersson

Art & Nature Photographer

Mats Andersson studied photo at the Industrial Art School in Gothenburg in the late 1980s. This was followed by a job as Art Director and Photographer in the advertising industry.
Mats Andersson is a Leica partner.

Major awards

  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 – winner Black & White
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year in Scandinavia 2016 (NNPC)
  • All over winner NNPC in 2016 (Nordic Nature Photo Contest)
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year in Sweden 2016 (Naturvårdsverket)
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 – silver Black & White


Scholarship 

  • Sveriges Författarfond 2021-23
  • Konstnärsnämnden 2021
  • Konstnärsnämnden 2020
  • Sveriges Författarfond 2019
  • Region Jkpg läns scholarship 2017
  • Sveriges Författarfond 2014

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Mats Andersson's Book Mother Earth – Silver winner Budapest International Foto Awards 2023

Mother Earth – Silver winner Book / Naturebifa –...

Mats Andersson's Leica-image "Ghost of the Beach" is awarded with Honorable Mention in BIFA 2023

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Mats Andersson – Silver winner New York Photography Awards 2023

NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS IS AN IAA COMPETITION. The...

12 pages in Italian Asferico Magazine

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Award Winning Photography

Fine Art Prints • Books • Workshops

Workshops

– Ever since the start, it has been important to us that our tours are...

Photobooks

   "Photo books are often beautiful. Mats Andersson's Nature Diary still...

Shop

In my shop you will find a variety of pictures and signed books for sale.

Swedish newspaper JP
writes in 2019

"Mats Andersson creates images like a painting artist. Or as a poet. I will several times think of Christer Strömholm who has the same personal approach, regardless of motives."

> Sydsvenskan "Vilken urkraft till fotobok" 12 mars 2023
> Photomagazine Kamera&Bild about Mother Earth 17 oct 2022
> Swedish Fotosidan about Mother Earth 21 oct 2022
> Jönköpings Posten 29 oktober 2022

"Du har verkligen lyckats få fram en speciell känsla kring boken.
Den ger en känsla av råhet och lyx på samma gång och du har lyckats behålla känslan
av hantverk trots en större upplaga. Riktigt imponerande!" /Jani Westman

Mother Earth – bifa 2023 Silver Winner, ipa 2023 Bronze Winner, nominated Swedish Publishing prize 2023
Mats Andersson photo book Mother Earth silver winner bifa 2023, bronze winner ima 2023

 Mother Earth

ISBN 978-91-527-3403-2

Year of publication: 2022
Format: 360x518 mm
Hard cover (Handmade)
Weigh: 1.100 g
Number of images: 188
Pages: 52
Language: English + Swedish
Price: 590 SEK


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"Boken Mother Earth, liknar inte någon annan bok;
den är lika rå, lika inbjudande, kreativ och mångfacetterad, som Mother Earth, själv.
Det är förresten ingen bok; snarare ett konstgalleri – med hårda pärmar".
/Anders Geidemark
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Through my photographs of nature and wild animals, I hope that people will see how fantastic our natural world is and that it is well worth conserving. Nature has also been very important to me when I’ve had tough times – it has given me energy. Going outside in the middle of the night and encountering wild animals and experiencing the spectacle of nature has been healing. I have used my camera to portray animals and nature – but all my photographs are in fact probably somewhat like self-portraits; they reflect my emotions.

I sometimes imagine what it was like when the Earth came into being. It must have been a spectacular and frightening scenario when all the volcanic eruptions led to the creation of a protective atmosphere, and when the seas were created by the ice from colliding asteroids and comets.

I have personally had the privilege of witnessing the birth of new land – an unforgettable experience. Standing by a volcano that is spewing lava is indescribable. In the summer of 2021, the volcano Geldingadalir erupted on southern Iceland, which had not occurred in the area for more than 800 years. A mind-blowing thought. I will never forget the smell of sulphur and the muffled rumbling sound. Like a heart, the volcano pumped out its blood in gushing streams. Mother Earth put on an amazing show!

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