Welcome to Episode 074 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Hans Strand!
Hans Strand, born in 1955 in Marmaverken, Sweden. In 1990, after a nine-year career in mechanical engineering he decided to devote his life to landscape photography. Its a change he never regretted. Hans has always felt himself drawn to the untamed and unmanipulated emotions and expressions that he finds in nature. He often says: ”The wilderness is the mother of all living things. It is always true and never trivial.” Hans' work takes him to diverse places worldwide; from polar deserts to steaming rain-forests and expansive deserts. The internationally awarded landscape photography is seldom a portrait of a place, but an expression of forces that create and mold a landscape. His pictures, frozen in a static frame, still tell a story of movement, time and evolution. Lately his photography has also taken a course away from the untouched and wild nature and focused more on people´s influences on ecosystems. Photographs of water pollution and the visual magic of man-made agricultural landscapes have become an important ingredient in his in recent work.
We covered some great topics this week, including:
1. Aerial photography and the differences / similarities with land-based photography.
2. His amazing Iceland aerial photography book.
3. Landscape photography - impressing vs. story-telling.
4. The state of landscape photography.
5. Intimate landscape photography vs. grand scenic.
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Over on Patreon this week, Hans and I discussed his current photography's focus on man's influence on ecosystems.
To learn more about Hans and see his photography, check out the liner notes over on my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com
369: Beth Buelow - Beyond the Label: Exploring Creative Identity in Photography
368: Eric Bennett & David Thompson - Space | Stillness | Silence
367: Alex Armitage - The Truth About YouTube Content Creation
366: Michael Rung - Authenticity and Full-Time Photography Challenges
365: Art Wolfe - Is Conservation Photography Actually Doing Anything?
364: Michael McMullen - Revealing Spokane's Unidentified
363: Kent Burkhardsmeier - Merging Poetry with Photography
362: Paul Wakefield - Insights from a Lifelong Journey in Photography
361: Peter Mather - Photographing Wolverines and Grizzly Bears with Camera Traps
360: Marcus McAdam - Crafting Visual Excellence and Quality Content Creation
359: Tim Geoffrion - A Quest to Photograph Every National Park
358: Mike DiMeola - Mentorship, Minimalism, and Mindfulness in Photography
357: Mark Davis - The Art of Japanese Forest Bathing
356: Tony Sweet - Discovering the Power of Infrared Nature Photography
355: Kamal X - What Landscape Photographers Can Learn From a Street Photographer
354: Richard Bernabe - The Drake Passage Special
353: Steve Gettle - Voice Vision and Style in Wildlife Photography
352: Tania Malkin - Portrait of Me; Aerial Australia Abstracts
351: Wayne Suggs - Getting the Most Out of a Photography Workshop
350: Ian Gaston - Falling in Love with Small Scenes
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