HAM. - About

Pål Hermansen lives in Ski, south of Oslo, Norway. He has worked as a photographer on the international market for more than 35 years, within the fields of nature, documentary and arts photography.

Pål Hermansen regards the exploration of nature through photography as the highest form of photography, dealing as it does with existential questions, life and death for all living creatures. Photographical documentation of nature early changed for him to a growing interest in the photographical language and the power of photography itself, boosting after undertaking a degree in art and photography. As a result of this, Pål has been aiming at blurring the traditional boundaries between nature imagery, documentary and fine art photography. He is also trained as a dentist and a homeopath, knowledge that sometimes can be seen implemented in his imagery and writing.

Publications: Pål has written and/or illustrated appr. 35 books on nature-related topics, and is represented as one out of ten photographers in the 2013 international portfolio book Masters of Nature Photography (BBC-Nat. Hist. Museum). His pictures have been published and exhibited worldwide, and he has garnered more than 30 prizes in major competitions as World Press Photo, Wildlife Photographer of the Year and GDT, and he is published in magazines as National Geographic Magazine, GEO and BBC Wildlife. He has had numerous exhibitions in Norway and abroad.

Major points of interest are images from the Polar regions and Africa, focusing on climate change and the interaction between man and nature in general. In addition, birds have always been a special passion.

palhermansen@hotmail.com

Pål Hermansen

Mats Andersson (born 1966) studied photo at the Industrial Art School in Gothenburg during the 1980s. This was followed by a job as Art Director and Photographer in the advertising industry. Since 1989 he has worked as an AD and Photographer at Concret Advertising in Jönköping, Sweden. Connected with photo agency Mascot in Stockholm since 2009. Elected to the prestigious Nature Photographers /N 2011.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 – winner Black & White. Wildlife Photographer of the Year in Scandinavia 2016 (NNPC). All over winner NNPC in 2016 (Nordic Nature Photo Contest). Wildlife Photographer of the Year in Sweden 2016. Published photos in a variety of newspapers, magazines and calendars over the years. Has published ten books.

UK's largest Photography Magazine Practical Photography writes in 2020:
"The artful dodger. Combining a profound artistic flair with a love of analogue darkroom techniques, Swedish legend Mats Andersson has turned his love of wildlife and landscapes into a hugely successful second career."

Swedish newspaper JP writes in 2019:
"Mats Andersson creates images like a painting artist. Or as a poet. I will several times think of Christer Strömholm who has the same personal approach, regardless of motives."

Nature Photo Festival in southern Sweden writes in 2014:
"Mats Andersson is one of the recent years' most creative Swedish nature photographer. With his own, very personal style he approaches his subjects not to document but to find an appealing artistic expression.

> matsmatsandersson.nuandersson.nu | mats@concret.se

Mats Andersson

Erik Malm was born in 1964. Since early childhood, he has been very interested in nature. However, it was another strong interest that would become his profession, the music. He studied clarinet at the Music Conservatory in Gothenburg. He has also studied conducting. For many years he played in the opera orchestra at the Malmö Opera as it is now called.

For family reasons, he, however, later changed profession. He is a partner in a family business that manufactures ergonomic office chairs since 1994. Now has the time come to take next step, when the images as Fine Art Prints in low and exclusive editions he shows here in a very serious way has started to find their home of customer from all over the world.

His interest in photography began when he was 12 years old. He then managed to persuade his father to borrow his camera. As the interest grew, he felt no longer that this camera was good enough, so he sold it - without his father's knowledge. Today he is forgiven.

1999 did Erik Malm publish his first book, a great photo book on the Swedish west coast where he grew up. It was in the traditional documentary photographic style. This book was followed by another three that concerned the Swedish west coast, and one of the Antarctic after a trip there in 2004.

It was pure coincidence that got Erik Malm to start with what is now usually called "Intentional Camera Movement (ICM)". You move the camera during long exposures. In Erik Malm cases it to 99.9% single exposures. It is extremely rare that he uses double or multiple exposures.

Since his time as a professional musician, he is trained to perfection. The most common subject at ICM photography in general around the world is trees panned vertically or water horizons panned horizontally. Usually you can see how the camera is moved, often with many parallel lines or double / triple shadows or similar. Another common results are smeared surfaces of the colors without any distinct sharpness. Erik Malm wanted to develop this.

The results Erik Malm worked hard to achieve has claimed more than ten years of practice. However, technique is not the goal but just a way to reach the artistic expression he is seeking. Just as in music.

Erik Malm also has a higher purpose in his pictures than just using them to Fine Art Prints. He is working on a major project about our planet Earth that he wants to show in a way that has not previously been made. More books are in the pipe as well as lectures.

erik@erikmalm.com