Anna Clarén

Clarén was born in 1972 in Valje, Sweden and grew up in Lund, Scania.{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-10|title=Anna Clarén – Galleri Final|url=http://gallerifinal.se/gunsten-breivik-trankell-ekman/}}

She studied photojournalism from 1994 to 1996 at {{ill|Nordens Folkhögskola Biskops-Arnö|sv}}, Sweden.{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-10|title=CV|url=https://annaclaren.com/cv/|website=Anna Clarén}}

Clarén worked as a photographer from 1997, including as a press photographer for Aftonbladet and Icakuriren, and making work for magazines and books. She now leads the Nordens Folkhögskola Biskops-Arnö, where she has been a head teacher since 2006.

Holding (2006) is a visual diary created over four months that "portrays the people and places in Clarén's immediate surroundings". It is included in Parr and Badger's The Photobook: A History, Volume III,{{cite book|first1=Gerry|last1=Badger|first2=Martin|last2=Parr|authorlink1=Gerry Badger|authorlink2=Martin Parr|title=The Photobook: A History Volume III|year=2014|location=London|publisher=Phaidon|isbn=9780714866772|page=269}} where it is described as containing "portraits, interiors, still lifes and landscapes — that together seem to make up a mysterious narrative. The style is diffuse and the images high key, washed-out in colour and frequently blue-tinged, which suggests they have only one foot in reality, and that the narrative is raking through old memories, or is a dream."

With Close to Home (2013) Clarén "documented herself as pregnant, her children, and the people and surroundings close to her home."{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-10|title=Hurry up to get Close to home with Anna Clarén|url=https://www.nordicstylemag.com/blog/2013/05/hurry-up-to-get-close-to-home-with-anna-claren-2|website=nordicstylemag.com}}

When Everything Changed (2018) was made from the point her third child was diagnosed with autism; "we then follow the family and glimpse the different ways they deal with the situation", from 2013 to 2017.{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-10|title=Anna Clarén: When Everything Changed|url=https://www.fotografiska.com/sto/en/news/anna-claren-nar-allting-forandrades/|website=Fotografiska}}

• Holding. Sweden: Journal, 2006. {{ISBN|978-9197577045}}.{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-10|title=Anna Clarén gillar kontrasterna på El Mundo|url=https://www.dn.se/sthlm/anna-claren-gillar-kontrasterna-pa-el-mundo/|date=20 December 2006|website=Dagens Nyheter}}
• Puppy Love. Sweden: Journal, 2009. {{ISBN|978-9197762564}}.
• Close to Home. Stockholm: Max Ström, 2013. {{ISBN|978-9171262677}}.{{cite web|first1=Sally|last1=Henriksson|access-date=2021-08-10|title=Clarén skildrar familjens skörhet|url=http://www.gp.se/1.515985|date=8 March 2013|website=Göteborgs-Posten}}{{cite news|last1=Spektra|access-date=2021-08-10|title=Clarén skildrar familjens skörhet|url=https://www.svd.se/claren-skildrar-familjens-skorhet|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet|date=6 March 2013|issn=1101-2412}}
• När allt förändrades / When Everything Changed{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-10|title=Bokrecension: Känslokaos bearbetas med kameran|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konstrecensioner/bokrecension-kanslokaos-bearbetas-med-kameran/|date=30 April 2018|website=Dagens Nyheter}}
• När allt förändrades. Stockholm: Max Ström, 2018. {{ISBN|978-91-7126-441-1}}.
• When Everything Changed. Stockholm: Max Ström, 2018. {{ISBN|9789171264428}}.

• Holding, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen, France, 2008/9
• Holding, The House of Culture, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
• When Everything Changed, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-10|title=Om det nära och vackra i livet|url=https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2014-01-31/om-det-nara-och-vackra-i-livet|website=Sydsvenskan}}

• A Way of Life: Swedish Photography from Christer Strömholm until Today, Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden, 2014;{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-09|title=Aesthetica Magazine - Christer Strömholm: A Way of Life, Moderna Museet Malmö|url=https://aestheticamagazine.com/christer-stromholm-way-life-moderna-museet-malmo/|website=Aesthetica}} Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014/15.{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-09|title=A Way of Life|url=https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/a-way-of-life/|website=Moderna Museet i Stockholm}} With work by Christer Strömholm, Clarén, Martin Bogren, JH Engström, Kenneth Gustavsson, Gerry Johansson, Tuija Lindström, Anders Petersen, Inta Ruka, Gunnar Smoliansky, Lars Tunbjörk, and others.

• 2006: Holding won Best Photobook in the {{Illm|Swedish Photo Book Prize|qid=Q583610}} from the {{Illm|Swedish Association of Professional Photographers|qid=Q3488689}}

Clarén's work is held in the following public collection:

• Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden: 12 prints (as of August 2021)

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Category:21st-century Swedish photographers

Category:People from Lund

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Category:1972 births

Category:21st-century Swedish women photographers