"A unique image of a wolf unlike any other in the world"

Swedish magazine Sveriges Natur, 150.000 copies

Iceland Photo Workshop

Iceland Photo Workshop

Kingdom of the Arctic Fox – summer 2026

Silver Winner 2025

Silver Winner 2025

New York Photography Awards

Bronze Winner

Bronze Winner

bifa 2025

Gold winner in London and Silver winner in Paris 2025

Gold winner in London and Silver winner in Paris 2025

London Photography Awards, B&W International Photography Awards

Silver Winner x 2

Silver Winner x 2

New York Photography Awards


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. Since 2009, Mats has worked as an Art & Nature photographer. Published 13 books. Awarded internationally over 60 times (2011–2025). Mats's images have been exhibited in over 20 countries around the world.
Mats Andersson is a Leica partner.

Major awards

  • Gold Winner The Swedish championships in Nature Photography 2024
  • 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

Mats Andersson

Latest NEWS

Mats Andersson vargbild hyllas i Jönköpings Posten
18 Feb 2026

Stort i Jönköpings Posten (Swedish newspaper) "Naturfotograf från Jönköping hyllas"

"Nature photographer Mats Andersson from Jönköping has...

Naturfotograf Mats Andersson tar världsunik bild på varg
05 Feb 2026

“A unique image of a wolf unlike any other in the world”. Published in the magazine "Sveriges Natur", which is printed in 150,000 copies.

"Inspired by photographers such as Christer Strömholm...

Fotoresa Islands fjällrävar med Mats Andersson
24 Jan 2026

Iceland Photo Workshop 2026 – Kingdom of the Arctic Fox

Iceland 7 days | 28 july – 3 august 2026 | Only 10...

Mats Andersson awarded i UKs Monoawards
04 Jan 2026

Awarded in the International Black & White Photography Contes Monochrome Photography Awards 2025

Monochrome Awards Photo Contest, 2025> Gallery...

Mats Andersson is silver Winner in New York 2025
13 Dec 2025

Mats Andersson is Silver Winner x 2 in New York Photography Awards 2025

IntimationsSilver Winner Professional. Category: Black...

Mats Andersson vinner brons i Tokyo International Foto Awards
27 Nov 2025

Rewarded in Tokyo International Foto Awards 2025 – Mats Andersson Honorable Mention

tifa 2025Mats Andersson's image "AFRICAN MORNING" is...

Mats Andersson vinner brons i bifa 2024, Budapest International Foto Awards
16 Oct 2025

Mats Andersson – Bronze Winner BIFA 2025

Mats Andersson's image "African Morning" – Bronze Winner...

SM i naturfoto 2025, Mats Andersson vinner brons
20 Sep 2025

Mats Andersson vinner brons i Svensk Naturfototävling 2025 (SM i naturfoto)

Mats Andersson is BRONZE Winner in Swedish championship...

Mats Andersson and Steve McCurry on the cover Overture Magazine Italy
26 Aug 2025

Steve McCurry, Steve Winter & Mats Andersson on the cover, Overture Magazine

Cover and 8 pages in Italian magazine Overture no 3...

Award Winning Photography

Fine Art Prints • Books • Workshops

Shop

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

Photobooks

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

Workshops

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

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."

Mats Andersson fotobok Mother Earth vinner silver i Budapest International Foto Awards 2023

Mother Earth – Silver winner Book / Nature

bifa – Budapest International Foto Awards 2023

> BUY

Mats Andersson silver winner Mother Earth Photo Book bifa 2023

> Swedish Photo Magazine Kamera&Bild writes, dec 2023

> Link to winning page bifa (Professional Book, Nature: Mother Earth)

> All winners Books

Mats Andersson's book Mother Earth is also nominated for the Swedish Publishing Prize 2023 - Sweden's most comprehensive communication competition. The books is also a bronze winner in IPA 2023.

BUDAPEST INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS is an international platform for photographers from all levels and genres to share their best images with the creative community in Hungary and Eastern Europe.The competition is open to everyone and we invite photographers from all over the world to take part and enter their work.
Budapest International Foto Awards is a sister competition to both the Moscow and Tokyo International Foto Awards.

Mother Earth silver winner bifa 2023

 

 

 

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