The Nordic landscape with its magical light and shifting seasons often form the foundation in Stefan Isaksson's photography.

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"I'm drawn to muted colours and my compositions are relatively scaled-back with a few carefully placed elements in each picture. I want to convey a calm and restful feeling"

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His interest in photography started in his teens whilst in Colorado as an exchange student. "I’ve always been adventurous, with a great interest in nature and a need to be outdoors. At first I shot a lot of downhill skiing, but on returning home to Sweden my subject-matter increasingly became simple landscapes and the people within those environments."

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That Stefan would choose a career as a photographer was not self-evident at first. He originally studied to be a design engineer and after graduating landed a job in the Volvo Cars design department. Whilst there he trained in CGI/3D visualisation and continued as a CGI artist at Volvo Cars for seven years. "During that time I learned to render computerised concepts of future models and place them into photographic environments which I often shot myself. It became clearer and clearer to me that it was possible to combine my knowledge of CGI with photography and vice versa."

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Im Jahr 2006 erhielt er ein Stipendium von Kodak und dem schwedischen Verband der Naturfotografen, und seine Arbeiten erschienen in einer Reihe von Fotomagazinen. Dies führte in den 00er Jahren zu einer Menge Arbeit, da er für Fotoagenturen fotografierte und Arbeiten für Ausstellungen im öffentlichen Raum produzierte.

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Isaksson was represented by galleries in Sweden, USA, Germany, Turkey and Brazil and also held several solo exhibitions, parallel to which he started and ran several CGI teams in the consulting industry.

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"Mein fotografischer Durchbruch kam 2013, als ich den Auftrag erhielt, Bilder von Volvos neuem Konzeptfahrzeug, dem Concept Coupé, für die Vorstellung auf der Frankfurter Messe zu produzieren. Die Fotos wurden in Stockholm aufgenommen, und da wir keinen echten Prototyp des Autos hatten, wurde CGI in Kombination mit Retusche verwendet. Danach erhielt ich weitere Aufträge, insbesondere von Volvo Cars."

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Seit 2014 konzentriert sich Stefan ganz auf seine große Leidenschaft - die Fotografie. Im Jahr 2016 war er einer der Finalisten des renommierten Fotowettbewerbs Hasselblad Masters.