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

UK's Black + White Photography Magazine

UK's Black + White Photography Magazine

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

Mats Andersson Silver winner New York

Mats Andersson Silver winner New York

New York Photography Awards 2023

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


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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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."

It’s been four years since Mats Andersson published his acclaimed book “Nature Diary” – and now another book is coming – his 13th publication.

Press release ENG

Pressrelease SWE 

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> Images HIGHRES from the book, contact mats [att] concret.se for download link 

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Mats Andersson’s “Mother Earth”
– a nature photography book that is unlike any other in the genre

It is undeniably a different nature photography book, and one of the photographer’s trademarks, where he works with diptychs communicating with each other across the spreads, is easily recognisable. The format is large (36x52 cm), which gives a great experience as many images are really large. The pages are interspersed with creative collages and sometimes images over the entire spread, which then becomes a full 70x50 cm.

PERSONAL AND CLOSE
Despite the book’s title, this book is also a very personal book.
– In a wider sense, the book is about our planet (Mother Earth) but it also contains bits and pieces from my everyday life, thoughts about the meaning of life and the joy and sorrow we experience as human beings. I also want the book to be open to interpretation, says Mats.
As Andersson’s previous books, the new one is also open to interpretation, dark and mysterious. Many pictures ask questions and force the (me as a) viewer to think twice before she/he (I) understand(s) the picture and the message.

The introduction, which is written by the photographer himself, we learn about his father’s passing and how much he meant, among other things.

My father inspired me to both start taking photographs and start running marathons. We had an extremely good relationship – we were more like friends. I still miss him very much since he passed away. Hardly a day goes by without me thinking about him. Saying farewell in the hospital, seeing his white hands folded across his chest, and then realising when I went home that it was the last time I saw him, was devastating.

– Of course, my father's passing in 2019 has affected how the book looks. The last photo in the book is a picture I created for my father when he was alive. It is also photographed at Ekhagen, where he lived. The image of the little spring flower in front of the big dark oak took on a completely differ- ent meaning when he passed away. I also chose to illustrate the picture with a quote from the artist Edvard Munch - a quote that is both scary and beau- tiful at the same time says Mats;

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

SCHOLARSHIP MADE THE BOOK POSSIBLE
In 2019, Mats was awarded the three-year work grant from Sveriges Författarfond and work on the book took off immediately.

– It means so much to receive both recognition for my previous books, but also the financial means that enabled me to continue working. The last pieces of the puzzle for the book fell into place in 2021 when I got to experience the volcanic eruption in Iceland. To me this is the ultimate proof of how the world was born and how it continues to evolve. I was really lucky to get there on time and also got exactly the pictures I wanted. The opening text was actually the hardest part for me to create, but I’m more of an image creator than a text writer, Mats concludes with a laugh.

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