Gold Winner 2026

Rewarded among 17.000 images

Rewarded among 17.000 images

Asferico – one of the really big photo competitions in the world

Iceland Photo Workshop

Iceland Photo Workshop

Kingdom of the Arctic Fox – summer 2026

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

Swedish magazine Sveriges Natur, 150.000 copies

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

With over 4000 entries from more than 40 countries – Mats Andersson Wins Gold

Mats Andersson Wins Gold at the 2026 MUSE Photography...

Swedish Photo Magazine Fotosidan: Två svenska medaljörer i jättelik naturfototävling

The two Swedish nature photographers Mats Andersson and...

Highly commended in International Nature Photography Competition Asferico 2026

Among 17,000 submitted photos in the International Nature...

Naturens och historiens penseldrag – ICM-workshop (måla med kameran) med Mats Andersson

Jag har med mina bilder och mitt bildspråk vunnit över...

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

"Nature photographer Mats Andersson from Jönköping has...

“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...

Iceland Photo Workshop 2026 – Kingdom of the Arctic Fox

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

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

Monochrome Awards Photo Contest, 2025> Gallery...

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

IntimationsSilver Winner Professional. Category: Black...

Award Winning Photography

Fine Art Prints • Books • Workshops

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.

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 in German Photo Magazine NaturFoto no 12 2022.
> Read the hole article here (pdf, German)
> NaturFoto Magazin für Naturfotografie


Ein langer Weg

Vom Experiment zur künstlerischen Naturfotografie

Naturfotografie hat enorm viele Facetten. Vom bestimmungsbuchtauglichen Dokument bis zur weitgehend abstrakten Abbildung, die dem Betrachter viel Raum für Fantasie lässt, reicht das Spektrum. Der schwedische Fotograf Mats Andersson beschreibt seinen Weg von ersten Versuchen mit einer Kompaktkamera bis hin zu ausdrucksstarken, malerisch anmutenden Interpretationen, bei denen die Technik der bewusst eingesetzten Kamerabewegung oft eine wichtige Rolle spielt …

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