14 bildberättelser
Avgångseleverna på bildjournalistprogrammet vid Mittuniversitetet ställer
ut 14 bildberättelser på temat “What is Swedish?”.
Det är den svenska identiteten som undersökts och sökandet har tagit
eleverna över fem kontinenter. Ämnena som behandlas är bland annat svenska
glamourmodeller, dansband, raggarbrudar, Sverige-Chilenare i Valparaiso,
skogsindustrin och adoption i Kenya.
Utbildningen är den enda bildjournalistikutbildningen på universitetsnivå
i landet. I det här projektet samarbetar vi med den prisbelönta fotografen
John Kimmich som även arbetar som professor i fotografi i Iowa i USA.
Hans Strand
Hans Strand was born in 1955 in Marmaverken, Sweden. After a 9 nine year career in mechanical engineering he decided to make a dramatic change to devote his life to landscape photography. Which had been his long held hobby and great passion. It is a change he has never regreted. Hans has always felt himself drawn to the untamed and unmanipulated that he finds in Nature. As Hans use to say ” The wilderness is the mother of all living things. It is always honest and never trivial “. Over the years Strand has had the entire planet as his workplace. Photographing everything from the vast expances of the Arctic, to steaming rainforests and dry deserts. His work has been displayed in numerous exhibitions and published in many international photography magazines. He has also lectured on his photography internationaly, He has received several awards for his photography. The latest is Hasselblad Masters Award 2008. He has published 3 books with landscape photographs and is now about to finish his latest book ” Arctic Impressions, a story on a vanishing world “.
Awards and Acheivements
-1999 Camera maker Canon´s international wall calendar
-1999 Winner of Swedish Nature Protection Agency´s award.
-2000 Winner in BG-Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
-2001 Winner in European Nature Photographer of the Year.
-2001 Winner in BG-Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
-2003 Winner of Nordic Nature Photographer of the Year.
-2008 Winner of Hasselblad Master Award.
- 2009 Winner in Digital Camera Photographer of the Year
förlängd tid på Metamorphoses
Francois Gillets utställning Metamorphoses är förlängd till den 2/5 2009.
