Salt Line: six days of winter light on the Faroese coast
A fourteen-page winter feature on the coastal villages of the Faroe Islands, shot in five hours of usable daylight a day with gale warnings on four of six days.
Photographer · editorial and commercial
Mara Lindqvist — Stockholm, Sweden
Photographs for the page, the wall and the brief
Commissions for travel and culture magazines, architecture practices, independent hotels and food brands. Fourteen years of assignments, and a print archive you can license.
Booking commissions from March 2027
- on assignment
- 14 yrs
- published editorial stories
- 212
- countries shot in
- 19
I have worked with
- Northbound
- Hollin & Marsh
- Casa Alvar
- Ledger Magazine
- Oat & Ember
- The Weekend Paper
- Fennel Row
- Studio Brask
Selected work
Six recent commissions, from the brief to the final frame
Each project shows what the client asked for, what the weather and the budget allowed, how I lit and shot it, and where the pictures ended up.
Casa Alvar: a 24-room hotel shot while guests were checked in
A full photo library for a converted farmhouse hotel in the Alentejo, shot in August heat without closing a single room, for a new booking site and travel trade press.
Oat & Ember: a still life system for 18 bakery products
Packaging and campaign stills for an organic granola and cracker brand, built as a repeatable lighting system so new products can be shot to match.
Kestrel House: a timber home photographed for an award entry
A larch-clad house on a loch shore, shot in the four days between handover and the owners moving in, for an award submission and the practice's monograph.
The Makers issue: seven portraits in four days for Ledger
Seven craftspeople across northern Italy, each photographed in their own workshop in under thirty minutes, for a themed issue and its cover.
Night Shift: people who keep a port city running after dark
A documentary series for a newspaper weekend supplement on night workers in Rotterdam: crane operators, bakers, tram cleaners and a 24-hour pharmacist.
Services
Commissions, licensing, prints and workshops
Most of my year is commissioned work for magazines, architects, hotels and food brands. The archive is available to license, the best frames are printed in small editions, and twice a year I teach.
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Commissions
Editorial, architecture, hotel and still life shoots, planned from a scout and a shot list. Day and half-day rates, travel at cost, a stylist or assistant when the brief needs one.
- Location or studio scout
- Agreed shot list
- Graded files in 5 working days
- Usage licence in writing
From $2,400/day
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Licensing
Over 9,000 captioned images of coasts, landscapes, interiors and food, available for editorial, advertising and packaging use. Licences are priced by use, territory and term, not by guesswork.
- Full-resolution files
- Model and property releases
- Written licence terms
- Same-day delivery
From $350/image
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Prints
Archival pigment prints and darkroom silver gelatin prints from the film work, in editions of 30. Signed, numbered and shipped flat or framed in oak.
- Editions of 30
- Signed certificate
- Framing in oak or walnut
From $280
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Workshops
Two-day field workshops for six people at a time, on coastal landscape and on interiors with natural light. Shooting at dawn, editing in the afternoon, honest portfolio reviews.
- Two days in the field
- Group of six
- Editing session
- One-to-one review
From $690
Kind words from clients
Mara Lindqvist came back from the Faroes with a cover, two spreads and a story told in pictures. The planning sheet alone told me we were in good hands.
Ingrid SolheimPhoto editor, Northbound Quarterly
“Architects are fussy about verticals and fussier about honesty. These images look like the building on a grey afternoon, and that's why the jury liked them.”
Callum MarshDirector, Hollin & Marsh Architects“We booked a photographer and got a system. Every new product since then has been shot to match in an hour, not a day.”
Lena OkoroCo-founder, Oat & Ember“Four days, a fully booked hotel and August heat. Not one guest complained and we have pictures for the next five years.”
Teresa MourãoOwner, Casa Alvar
Have a story, a building or a product to photograph?
Send the dates and the place. I'll reply with questions, a scouting plan and a written quote within two working days.
Date holds are free for seven days