matsandersson.nu - Silver Winner in worlds biggest B&W Photo Competition

Silver Winner x 2

New York Photography Awards

Abecita Art Museum Sweden

Exhibition Mother Earth 30 jan – 4 may 2025

Platinum Winner

Global Photography Awards 2024

Gold Winner

Svensk Naturfototävling 2024 SM i naturfoto

Gold Winner

European Photography Awards 2024

Silver winner x 2 in Paris

B&W Photography Awards 2024

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

Natuurfotografie Magazine dec 2024 Mats Andersson — Mats Andersson i published in the Dutch photo-magazine Natuurfotografie

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

Mats Andersson vinner brons i bifa 2024, Budapest International Foto Awards — Mats Andersson – Bronze Winner BIFA 2024

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

Mats Andersson ställer ut på Abecita konstmuseum 2025 — Exhibition Mother Earth – Abecita Art Museum 30 jan 2025

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

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

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

Mats Andersson naturfotograf publicerad i Natur & Foto 2024 — 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 naturfotograf vinner guld i uropean Photography Awards 2024 — Mats Andersson Gold Winner European Photography Awards 2024

GOLD WINNERBlack & White Photography –...

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."