My background
My name is Mikael Svensson and I have worked full time as a nature and landscape photographer since 2004. It started during my years in the beautiful Grövelsjön mountains. I was fascinated by the changing mountain world and have since taken my subjects from nature’s inexhaustible treasure trove.
I live in Mölndal and have nature around my corner. I don’t have to go far away to find the clean, simple and graphic motifs I’m looking for. A lot of it is about time, in the end comes that perfect light, the desired moment. It’s not luck or chance that determines, it’s the devotion.
In the spring of 2007 I was elected to the association Naturfotograferna and I am also represented at Johnér, one of Sweden’s largest photo agencies.
Scholarships
Work scholarship Author Foundation (2007)
Cultural scholarship Mölndal Rotary (2008)
Work scholarship Author Fund (2015)
Published books
Vänern upplevelser vid vatten
Delsjön där stad och vildmark möts
Luleälven möten i norr
Den ljusnande framtid är vår
Dalälven från fjäll till fjärd
Nordens längsta vattendrag
Nordiskt ljus
En timme från Götaplatsen
Mölndalsån från källan till Drömmarnas kaj
More about Mikael Svensson
Därför tar jaget plats i naturen
Det gäller att rätta sig efter ljuset
Mikael Svensson fångar vattnets väg
Här börjar det porla så in i Norden
Experten på lysande naturbilder
Nu vet Mikael var Göta älv börjar
På ständig jakt efter det perfekta ljuset
Mikael följde strömmen
Mölndalsån genom kameralinsen
… but it really shows that he is primarily a nature photographer. The light, the perspective, the gaze, the timing do not create a clichéd sense of magic, but enhance an already beautiful reality.
Johan Lindqvist / GP
Finally, the pictures, which occupy most of the book. They completely take me by the way; nature photographer Mikael Svensson knows what he’s doing! And this is his seventh photo book. The more you read and the more you look at the pictures, the clearer it is what a fine book you have in front of you.
Strandskatorna på nätet
Mikael Svensson comes across as a real master photographer. His razor-sharp images testify that modern cameras see what no human eye is able to perceive, and some natural scenes look almost over-real. The narrative text has difficulty competing with the photographs. Thanks to the pictures, this book is a given gift article.
Kuriren