Erik Malm photo exhibition, july Sweden
Erik Malm photo exhibition.
Galleri Tärnan, Nösund, Orust in Sweden.
24 – 28 july. (14 pm – 19 pm)
News
Erik Malm in photomagazine Kamera&Bild
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New book by Erik Malm july 2021
The Land of Waves – the Archipelago of Bohuslän painted with the camera as a brush
Bränningsland – Bohusläns skärgård målad med kameran som pensel
Fully English translation in the end of the book!
It is most likely that you never have seen the archipelago of Bohuslän depicted with the type of photography that Erik Malm presents in this book.
• 30x30 cm, 148 images, 340 pages, weight 2,3 kg.
• ISBN 978-91-519-8393-6
• Printed with the Hybrid Print technology on the very exclusive paper
Arctic Paper Munken Polar Rough with beautiful structure. A real "Fine Art coffee table book"
Mats Andersson in Sweden's largest nature- and environmental magazine
"The curious but vigilant gleam in a bird's eye, the fox that follows you on the path, the butterfly that lands on your hand. Few things fascinate us humans as contact with wild animals. What do they think and feel, really?
Not long ago, wild animals were seen as instinct-driven, almost robot-like. Developments in ethology, the study of animal behavior, have narrowed and sometimes erased the gap between us and them ...
Images that touch. Emotions are important for strong animal images, Mats Andersson thinks. But in his case, it is probably a lot of his own feelings that are reflected in nature.During a tough period in the marriage, the camera became the breathing space.
– I lived a long time in a bad marriage. We tried to save it by moving to the countryside and getting horses. It took a few years but it was still something that rubbed and I fled more and more often everyday with the camera. Stayed up all nights and snuck on animals ... "/ Text Mats Hellmark
> Read the article here. (Only in Swedish)
Swedish newspaper JP; Mats A rewarded for his fabulous pictures
Cover and two pages in Swedish newspaper JP 22 dec 2020
> Read the article in Swedish here
... This is not the first time Mats Andersson has been rewarded for his fabulous pictures from near and far. But this is by far his biggest reward as he receives SEK 450,000 from the Swedish Writers 'Fund, and SEK 50,000 from the Artists' Committee. - Overwhelming of course!, says Mats as he invites me into his home in Bashult just south of Jönköping, Sweden.
The walls are adorned with both colorful art and black and white magical moments captured by role models such as Anders Petersen, Christer Strömholm and Arno Rafael Minkkinen. My question is; what does he have going on in the future? Is it possible to find clues in his home, in the past?
The walls are adorned with both colorful art and black and white magical moments captured by role models such as Anders Petersen, Christer Strömholm and Arno Rafael Minkkinen. My question is; what does he have going on in the future? Is it possible to find clues in his home, in the past?
In 2009, he published his first book, Årstiderna. However, his photography career could have taken off much earlier, but the technology was against him.
- I took analogue pictures of John Bauer trolls in the woods already in the late 80's, but I put them in the drawer when I did not manage to make the pictures I had in mind. When the digital cameras came, I started taking abstract pictures, I started to figure out how to do to get the right feeling. During the 90s, Mats Andersson built up the advertising agency Concret. A company he still runs full time, for about 20 years together with his partner David Söderlind. But it is his great hobby of art and nature photography that has made his name known world wide; a hobby that many followers wonder how he manages.
- I took analogue pictures of John Bauer trolls in the woods already in the late 80's, but I put them in the drawer when I did not manage to make the pictures I had in mind. When the digital cameras came, I started taking abstract pictures, I started to figure out how to do to get the right feeling. During the 90s, Mats Andersson built up the advertising agency Concret. A company he still runs full time, for about 20 years together with his partner David Söderlind. But it is his great hobby of art and nature photography that has made his name known world wide; a hobby that many followers wonder how he manages.
- Several of the books have cost me SEK 300,000 plus all the hours I put into it, but I am lucky, I do not have to sell images to support myself as some professionals are forced to do. This in turn means that I get to record and create what I find valuable. Sure, I could live on image sales, workshops and lectures, but I have a need to go to work too, that's the team player in me.
The workaholic is part of Mats Andersson, but it is the curious pioneer who drives him forward; full schedule, physical and mental challenges, go deep, sometimes to the limit…
- I was the calm in the family when I was little, it was my big brother Stefan who was the bully boy. However, I joined him quickly as I got older. The Andersson brothers were not content with a wild nightlife, they wanted more than that, the forces of nature were to be explored in earnest. Preferably at home, in and around their beloved homeland.
- I love the nature around Jönköping, but when I could not do myself justice with the camera in the forest, my brother and I tried scuba diving. We were not content with regular dives, we went down to 65 meters deep in our lake Vättern, we got really drunk down there. Then of course we were excluded from the diving club when they got to see our logbooks, says Mats and smiles.
- The most fun was to examine the wreck Eric Nordevall outside Vadstena at a depth of 45 meters. But of course the 3,000-year-old sword I found outside Oset in Huskvarna beat most things. It was a TV report and the whole mess. Sadly, it has ended up in a storage room at the museum. The next big thing was paragliding and the closest thing to Andersson's boys was Huskvarna-mountain.
- We took a paragliding course, then we thought it was time to throw ourselves off the cliff of Huskvarna mountain. We did not have a certificate for that, but the headwind from Lake Vättern could offer an incredible trip, so we did… we could land right next to my house. The digital revolution was still a bit into the future, the adventure attracted more than the peace outside the family's safe enclosure, which towards the end of the 90s would include wife and son. Now he was bitten by horsepower.
- Suddenly it was road racing that mattered, I think I was around and tested all tracks in Sweden for a few years, on the fastest Italian superbikes. The need for speed was awesome, of some 290 km/h, full throttle. After the turn of the millennium, the desire to create art rocketed again. Mats increasingly sought out the outdoors, all the while technology now enabled him to visualize his thoughts, which by this time had begun to darken by a bad marriage. Basically, we may be talking about the same kick, the same escape from reality. Ten years later, he named his eleventh book "Nature Diary", which was a single long illustration of a lost heart in space. A picture diary that also became the theme of his lectures for a period. Today, Mats describes the internal turbulence more timelessly ... /Torbjörn Berlstedt
- I was the calm in the family when I was little, it was my big brother Stefan who was the bully boy. However, I joined him quickly as I got older. The Andersson brothers were not content with a wild nightlife, they wanted more than that, the forces of nature were to be explored in earnest. Preferably at home, in and around their beloved homeland.
- I love the nature around Jönköping, but when I could not do myself justice with the camera in the forest, my brother and I tried scuba diving. We were not content with regular dives, we went down to 65 meters deep in our lake Vättern, we got really drunk down there. Then of course we were excluded from the diving club when they got to see our logbooks, says Mats and smiles.
- The most fun was to examine the wreck Eric Nordevall outside Vadstena at a depth of 45 meters. But of course the 3,000-year-old sword I found outside Oset in Huskvarna beat most things. It was a TV report and the whole mess. Sadly, it has ended up in a storage room at the museum. The next big thing was paragliding and the closest thing to Andersson's boys was Huskvarna-mountain.
- We took a paragliding course, then we thought it was time to throw ourselves off the cliff of Huskvarna mountain. We did not have a certificate for that, but the headwind from Lake Vättern could offer an incredible trip, so we did… we could land right next to my house. The digital revolution was still a bit into the future, the adventure attracted more than the peace outside the family's safe enclosure, which towards the end of the 90s would include wife and son. Now he was bitten by horsepower.
- Suddenly it was road racing that mattered, I think I was around and tested all tracks in Sweden for a few years, on the fastest Italian superbikes. The need for speed was awesome, of some 290 km/h, full throttle. After the turn of the millennium, the desire to create art rocketed again. Mats increasingly sought out the outdoors, all the while technology now enabled him to visualize his thoughts, which by this time had begun to darken by a bad marriage. Basically, we may be talking about the same kick, the same escape from reality. Ten years later, he named his eleventh book "Nature Diary", which was a single long illustration of a lost heart in space. A picture diary that also became the theme of his lectures for a period. Today, Mats describes the internal turbulence more timelessly ... /Torbjörn Berlstedt
Hermansen Highly commended x 2 Nature Photographer of the Year
Pål managed to get two of his photos Highly commended in the international photo competition Nature Photographer of the Year 2020.
Nearly 20,000 photos participated.
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Andersson receives 550.000 SEK in scholarship
Mats Andersson receives Sveriges Författarfonds (The Swedish Photographers' Association) 3-year work scholarship of SEK 450,000 (distributed over the years 2021-2023). He will also receive a scholarship of SEK 50,000 (tax-free) from Konstnärsnämnden (Arts Council) in December 2020.
Since 2009, Andersson has published no less than 12 books.
The Swedish Photographers' Association writes: 17 photographers have received work scholarships from the Authors 'Fund for Autumn 2020. In addition, the fund has awarded a large number of extra scholarships that many photographers have received. Anna Clarén is a representative for photography on the Authors' Fund's board.
The Swedish Photographers' Association writes: 17 photographers have received work scholarships from the Authors 'Fund for Autumn 2020. In addition, the fund has awarded a large number of extra scholarships that many photographers have received. Anna Clarén is a representative for photography on the Authors' Fund's board.
Scholarships Mats Andersson:
• 2014. Ettårigt arbetsstipendium av Sveriges Författarfond.
• 2017. Kulturstipendium av Region Jönköpings län. (25.000 SEK)
• 2019. Stora ettåriga arbetsstipendiet av Sveriges Författarfond. (90.000 SEK)
• 2020. Konstnärsnämndens stipendie. (50.000 SEK)
• 2021. 3-årigt arbetsstipendium av Sveriges Författarfond 2021-23. (450.000 SEK)