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

12 pages in Italian Asferico Magazine

I have known the Swedish photographer Mats Andersson's...

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...

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."

2023 
Winner 3rd Place International Photography Awards – IPA (Mother Earth)
Editor's Pick (Eruption Litli-Hrutur) – Black & White Photography Awards – lensculture
Editor's Pick (Mountain horse) – Black & White Photography Awards – lensculture
Highly Commended International Nature Photography Competition Asferico

2022
Silver (2nd place Winner) bifa category Book) – Nature Diary
Gold Winner bifa (category Book-Nature) – Nature Diary
Gold Winner bifa (category Fine Art-Other) – Image "The Mountain Man"
Honorable Mention bifa (category Nature-Landscape) – Image "The Mountain"
Gold Winner London Photography Awards
Highly Commended International Nature Photography Competition Asferico
Silver medal in Scandinavias largest nature photo contest NNPC Nordic Nature Photo Contest

2021
Honorable Mention (Professional, landscape) Monochrome Awards, International Black & White Photography Contest
Honorable Mention (Professional, Nature) Monochrome Awards, International Black & White Photography Contest
Honorable Mention (Professional, Fine Art) Monochrome Awards, International Black & White Photography Contest
Honorable Mention (Professional, Fine Art) Monochrome Awards, International Black & White Photography Contest

2020
Honorable Mention Nature, Animals. ipa – International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention OneShot M. Nature. ipa – Intern. Photography Awards

2018
Nordic Nature Photo Contest NNPC Finalist (top-10)

2017
Wildlife Photographer of the Year WPY – Silver (finalist)
Nordic Nature Photo Contest NNPC – Finalist (top-10)

2016
Wildlife Photographer of the Year WPY, winner black & white
Wildlife Photographer of the Year in Scandinavia NNPC. Årets NORDISKA naturfotograf
Wildlife Photographer of the Year in Sweden. Årets naturfotograf
All over winner Nordic Nature Photo Contest NNPC
Finalist Mammals NNPC
Finalist x 2 Kreative category NNPC

2011
Winner Metro Global Photo Challenge (Sverigefinalen)

 

Rewarded images. All prints are in Limited editions.
> In my shop you will find a variety of pictures for sale.
For other pictures or the pictures above please contact me: mats [att] concret.se

Fine Art prints are made on Museum Natural Rag 260 g or Hahnemüle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth 305 g
– a 100% cotton paper which is a museum-, art and photo paper.
It provides one of the highest achievable Dmax (black) currently available on the market, making it ideal for fine art photography and graphic arts.
A pigmented 10-color ink has been used for printing which gives an archival life of nearly 100 years!

Andersson Consulting AB • Bashult 24 • 555 92 Jönköping, Sweden • mats [att] concret.se • +46 708 14 12 42