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
351: Wayne Suggs - Getting the Most Out of a Photography Workshop
350: Ian Gaston - Falling in Love with Small Scenes
349: Amy Gulick - Salmon in the Trees
348: David duChemin - Focusing on Voice and Vision
347: Jassen Todorov - Creating Award Winning Aerial Photographs
346: Kirsten Elstner - National Geographic Photo Camp
345: Alex Nail - The Great Wilderness
344: Thru-hiking the Colorado Trail as a Landscape Photographer
343: Chris Saunders - Making the Mundane Fun in Landscape Photography
342: Eileen Rafferty - Elevating Your Photography With Alternative Printmaking
341: Anders Spetz - A Journey from CEO to Photographer
340: Clyde Butcher - Master of the Florida Swamps
339: Cat Coquillette - How to License Your Artwork
338: Betty Wiley - Photographing the Magic of Cape Cod
337: William Neill - Portfolio Development & New Yosemite Book
336: Morgan Heim - A Wildlife Photojournalism Rock Star
335: Paul Hoelen - Making the World a Better Place
334: Sean Tucker - The Meaning in the Making
333: Kaisa Siren - Visualize the Unseen Through Intentional Camera Movement
332: Hans Gunnar Aslaksen - Incorporating Design Concepts Into Photography
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