Silver Winner x 2

Silver Winner x 2

New York Photography Awards

Abecita Art Museum Sweden

Abecita Art Museum Sweden

Exhibition Mother Earth 30 jan – 4 may 2025

Platinum Winner

Platinum Winner

Global Photography Awards 2024

Gold Winner

Gold Winner

Svensk Naturfototävling 2024 SM i naturfoto

Gold Winner

Gold Winner

European Photography Awards 2024

Silver winner x 2 in Paris

Silver winner x 2 in Paris

B&W Photography Awards 2024

Rewarded in Scandinavias largest Photo Contest

Rewarded in Scandinavias largest Photo Contest

Finalist x 2 Nordic Nature Photo Contest 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

Mats Andersson

Latest NEWS

Mats Andersson is Silver Winner x 2 in New York Photography Awards 2024, the Professional class

Alone (Arctic Fox) (Leica SL2-S)Silver Winner...

Mats Andersson i published in the Dutch photo-magazine Natuurfotografie

Mats Andersson is published in the Dutch photo-magazine...

Mats Andersson – Bronze Winner BIFA 2024

Mats Andersson's image "Is There Anybody Out There?" –...

Exhibition Mother Earth – Abecita Art Museum 30 jan 2025

Abecita Popkonst & FotoMats Andersson's Mother Earth...

Mats Andersson foto-workshop Yttre Hebriderna 28 juli – 1 augusti 2025

Outer Hebrides | Yttre Hebriderna 28 juli – 1 augusti...

Mats Andersson is published in the Norwegian Nature Photography Magazine Natur og Foto

Natur&Foto no 4 2024 Is There Anybody Out There? I'm...

Platinum WINNER Global Photography Awards 2024

Mats Andersson is a PLATINUM WINNER in Global...

Mats Andersson vinner guld i Svensk Naturfototävling (SM i naturfoto)

Mats Andersson is GOLD Winner in Swedish championship...

Mats Andersson Gold Winner European Photography Awards 2024

GOLD WINNERBlack & White Photography –...

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."

Cover and 8 pages in Black+White Photography (No 286 – 2024).

In 14 short years, Mats Andersson has published over a dozen books and won numerous awards. He spoke to Charlie Thomas about his start in photography, how he arrived at his unique style, and what it takes to find your creative voice.

At first glance, it's hard to distinguish whether a Mats Andersson print is a painting or photograph. He blends the abstract with the surreal, resulting in landscape imagery that can simultaneously evoke feelings of unease, tranquillity, forbidding and calm. His style is instantly recognisable, a dark, gritty, analogue look with deep blacks, a rich grain structure and often plenty of motion, which contributes to his painterly style. It’s a combination that has seen him win countless wildlife photography awards, while his 13 published books speak to an enviable work ethic …

Mats Andersson sweden in Black + White Photography No 286 2024

Black+White Photography is respected for its quality writing, stylish design and compelling photographs. Highlighting quality contemporary monochrome photography, B+W covers a range of genres including documentary, portraiture, still life, landscape and street.
The magazine has featured interviews with leading figures, including Nick Brandt, Michael Kenna, Vanessa Winship, David Bailey, Sarah Moon and Michael Ackerman, as well as many other seminal and emerging photographers.
Launched in 2001, B+W informs, inspires and stimulates all levels of creative photographers working within the monochrome aesthetic. Inspiring and engaging readers to take their photography to the next level is at the core of the magazine’s ethos.

SWE. Ett av de stora fotomagasinen i England publicerar en av mina bilder på omslaget och har hela åtta sidor om mig och mitt bildskapande i årets första utgåva av Black+White Photography (No 286 – 2024).

Black+White Photography kommer ut med hela tolv nummer per år. Bland annat hade de Isa Marcelli på omslaget i nummer 281

> Read the article (pdf)

 

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