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
311: Matt Oliver - Landscape Photography from the UK Peak District
310: Julien Parrot - How Moving to a New Country Changed My Photography
309: Viktoria Haack - Why Generalists Triumph in Photography
308: Shane Turgeon - How Nature Photography Saved My Life
307: AI and Photography - A Panel Discussion
306: Michele Sons - Photographing the Magic of Appalachia
305: Walid Azami - Pricing Your Photography
304: Hank Erdmann - Improving Your Nature Photography Through the Use of the Five Senses
303: Sigfrido Zimmermann - An Ecologist’s Take on Nature Photography
302: Joe Cornish & Alex Nail - Artists asking Artists #5
301: Exploring Antarctica
300: Marc Adamus
299: Mieke Boynton - Aerial Photography is [not] a Cheat Code!
298: Matt Palmer - 2019 Australian Photographer of the Year
297: Nick Becker - What Neuroscience Tells Us About Creativity
296: Ethical Considerations for Wildlife Photography - Pam Dorner & Jennifer Leigh Warner
295: Jay Rasmussen - Finding Success with Art Fairs
294: Ilan Shacham - Photographing Israel & the Challenge of Monetization
293: Radomir Jakubowski - Think Like an Economist to Improve Your Photography
292: Alister Benn - Surrender Yourself to the Landscape
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