Tommy Ingberg Bio

Tommy Ingberg is a photographer and visual artist, born 1980 in Sweden. He works with photography and digital image editing, creating minimalistic and self-reflecting surreal photo montages dealing with human nature, feelings and thoughts.

Tommy leaves the interpretation of his work up to the viewer but says, "For me, surrealism is about trying to explain something abstract like a feeling or a thought, expressing the subconscious with a picture. For my work I use my own inner life, thoughts and feelings as seeds to my pictures. In that sense the work is very personal, almost like a visual diary. Despite this subjectiveness in the process I hope that the work can engage the viewer in her or his own terms. I want the viewers to produce their own questions and answers when looking at the pictures, my own interpretations are really irrelevant in this context. "

His work is represented in collections all over the world from the National Museum of Photography in Colombia to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. During the last eight years his work has won over 30 international awards.


In 2012 Tommy won the Lumen Prize with his picture “Torn” and in 2014 he was named "One to Watch" by Saatchi Art.

Articles and interviews in selection

2015 Black & White Magazine
2014 Phlearn interview
2014 Saatchi Online "One to Watch"
2013 Global Panorama
2013 World Photography Organization
   

Awards, in selection

2016 International Photography Awards - 1st place in the category Professional/Digitally Enhanced
2016 International Photography Awards - Country Pick Sweden
2016 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris - 3rd place (Bronze Medal Winner) in Category Fine Art/Digitally Enhanced
2014 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris - 1st place (Gold Medal Winner) in Category Book/Fine Art
2014 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris - Honorable Mention in Category Fine Art/Collage
2014 International Photography Awards - Top Country Pick Sweden
2014 Saatchi Online "One to Watch"
2013 International Photography Awards - 2nd place in the category Non-Professional Special/ Digitally Enhanced
2013 International Photography Awards - 3rd place in the category Non-Professional Fine Art/ Collage
2013 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris - 1st place (Gold Medal Winner) in Category Non-Professional Fine Art/Collage
2013 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris - 3rd place (Bronze Medal Winner) in Category Non-Professional Book Proposal / Fine Art
2013 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris - Honorable Mention
2013 2013 International Loupe Awards - Silver Award
2013 13th Malmö International Exhibition of Photographic Art - PSA Gold Medal (Best in show monochrome section)
2013 13th Malmö International Exhibition of Photographic Art - RSF Silver Medal, FIAP Honorable Mention
2013 Photographer's Forum 33rd Annual Spring 2013 - Finalist
2013 Sony World Photography Awards - Commended
2013 German International DVF Photocup - 2 medals + Best Author (Fotosalon Niedersachsen)
2012 Lumen Prize Exhibition - Winner
2012 Grand Prix de la Decouverte /International Fine Art Photography Competition - Category finalist / Honorable Mention + 2 Juror Award of Merit
2012 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris - 1st place (Gold Medal Winner) in Category Non-Professional Fine Art/Digitally Enhanced
2012 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris - Honorable Mention
2012 2012 International Loupe Awards - Silver Award + Bronze Award
2012 12th Malmö International Exhibition of Photographic Art - PSA Gold Medal (Best in show monochrome section)
2012 12th Malmö International Exhibition of Photographic Art - FIAP Bronze Medal
2012 4th Finland International Digital Circuit - PSA Silver Medal
2012 Photographer's Forum 32nd Annual Spring 2012 - Finalist
2012 Adore Noir Portfolio Contest - One of six winners/finalists
2012 2nd Indonesian Salon of Art Photography - PSA Silver Medal
2012 2nd International Donkey Art Prize - Finalist
2012 Sony World Photography Awards - Commended
2011 International Photography Awards 2011- Honorable Mention

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