Winner 3rd Place International Photography Awards 2023

Winner 3rd Place International Photography Awards 2023

Mother Earth – winner 3rd Place Professional Book, Nature

Lensculture Black & White Photography Awards 2023

Lensculture Black & White Photography Awards 2023

Mats Anderssons image Eruption is Editor's pick lensculture 2023

Mats Andersson's book Mother Earth is nominated for the Swedish Publishing Prize 2023

Mats Andersson's book Mother Earth is nominated for the Swedish Publishing Prize 2023

Sweden's most comprehensive communication competition

Iceland Photo Workshop 2024 – the kingdom of the Arctic Fox

Iceland Photo Workshop 2024 – the kingdom of the Arctic Fox

Fjällrävens rike. 26–31 july 2024


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

 
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

Latest NEWS

Mats Andersson's Book Mother Earth – winner 3rd Place International Photography Awards 2023

Mother Earth – winner 3rd Place Professional Book,...

Iceland Photo Workshop 2024 – the kingdom of the Arctic Fox

Iceland 6 days | 26–31 july 2024 | Only 10 participants |...

Boken Mother Earth är nominerad till Publishingpriset 2023 – Sveriges mest heltäckande kommunikationstävling

Mats Andersson's book Mother Earth is nominated for the...

Inspirationsföreläsning med Mats Andersson – bilder som inte ”dör” på 1/10 sekund

Sveriges fotodagar, Malmö 6 maj 2023.

Sydsvenskan recenserar Mats Anderssons bok Mother Earth – som Ansel Adams filtrerad genom Anders Petersen

  What a powerhouse of a photo book!  Mats Andersson's...

Highly commended in International Nature Photography Competition Asferico

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

Mats Andersson begins collaboration with Leica Camera

In December 2022, one of the world's most prestigious...

8 pages in German Photo Magazine NaturFoto

Mats Andersson in German Photo Magazine NaturFoto no 12...

Nature Diary – GOLD WINNER bifa 2022

> Buy Nature Diary - 10 Euro off !!! with Discount...

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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