Anna Clarén

Anna Clarén (born 1972) is a Swedish photographer and educator.

Holding (2006) won Best Photobook in the Swedish Photo Book Prize. She has had solo exhibitions at The House of Culture and Fotografiska in Stockholm, and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen in France. Clarén's work is held in the collection of Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

She leads the (Nordic Photography School).

Early life and education Clarén was born in 1972 in Valje, Sweden and grew up in Lund, Scania.

She studied photojournalism from 1994 to 1996 at , Sweden.

Life and work Clarén worked as a photographer from 1997, including as a press photographer for Aftonbladet and Icakuriren, and making work for magazines and books. 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."

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.

Publications Holding. Sweden: Journal, 2006. . Puppy Love. Sweden: Journal, 2009. . Close to Home. Stockholm: Max Ström, 2013. . När allt förändrades / When Everything Changed När allt förändrades. Stockholm: Max Ström, 2018. . When Everything Changed. Stockholm: Max Ström, 2018. .

Exhibitions Solo exhibitions Holding, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen, France, 2008/9

Group exhibitions A Way of Life: Swedish Photography from Christer Strömholm until Today, Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden, 2014; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014/15. 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.

Awards 2006: Holding won Best Photobook in the from the

Collections Clarén's work is held in the following public collection: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden: 12 prints (as of August 2021)