Björn Andrén

I am a fine art and stock photographer selling and publishing images around the world through various agencies. I have been in the business since 1992 with numerous stock agencies and a few assignments and exhibitions

I am trying to balance the fine line between creative images with a personal touch and an international appeal. The fine art images fall into a few different categories reflecting my extrovert lifestyle and my secret inner life. The subject matter is often, with or without people, the city, the sea and the mountains.

Something happened in my mind when is saw my first black and white image appear under the red light in the developing tray in the darkroom, many years ago, that feeling is still hanging around like a chronic infection. I don´t know why I am making images but I do know that I get very unhappy if I don´t.

I was born in Gothenburg in 1961 and I still live there with my wife, daughter, a dog and a horse. The cat and the guinea pigs are at the happy hunting grounds. Travelling frequently to the mountains, the sea,the cities and through books, arts and into my dreams.

• “A great image is a strange thing, just a cluster of different colored dots or pixels and still this mysterious, unspeakable, heightened sense of life when it hits you.”