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
271: Tristan Todd - Unlocking the Puzzle of the Forest
270: Colin Sillerud - Mentorship, Workshops, and the American Southwest
269: Theo Bosboom - Unique Nature Photos from the Netherlands
268: Rubin - Eight Useful Ways to Describe and Measure Photography
267: Aman Chokshi - Photography from the South Pole
266: Devin Rogers - The Journey of the New Photographer
265: Simon Baxter - A Passion for the Woodland
264: Holger Mischke - Combining Music, Writing, and Photography
263: Brent Clark - Curating Your Photography
262: David Southern - A Voyage of Discovery in Photography
261: Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero - Finding Your Why
260: Sandra Bartocha - Judging Nature Photography Competitions
Ben Maze - Flow States in Landscape Photography
The Wilderness Society and Landscape Photography
Serena Dzenis - Photography as Art that Conveys an Idea
Francesco Carovillano - Trying to Fail Better at Photography
Ashlei Payne - Creating Projects of Personal Importance
Peter Coskun - Confidence and Learning from Failure in Nature Photography
Mitch Dobrowner - A Humble Journey into Landscape Photography
Julia Redl - Minimalistic Landscape Photography
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