Erik Malm was born in 1964. Since his childhood he has been interested in staying out in the nature. At the age of twelve, he was introduced into the world of birds. One year later, he asked his father if he could try his camera. This was the beginning of his photographic career. Within twelwe month again, he sold the camera – without his father's knowledge – to buy a better one. By now, his father has forgiven him.

Yet, another interest was to dominate his life for many years. When he was eleven years old, he began to play the clarinet and some years later he decided to become a professional "symphonic" musician. After studies at the Gothenburg College of Music, he began his professional career as playing the principal clarinet in the orchestra at the Malmö City Theatre 1988, which is now called the Malmö Opera. He has also studied conducting for the Finnish conductor Jorma Panula. He also founded his own ensemble, The Swedish Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble with the best young professional musicians from various symphony orchestras in Sweden.
In his present photographic work, the musical experiences are very important.

Due to family reasons, Erik Malm interrupted his music career in 1994. He started to study techniques, physics, biomechanics, physiology and ergonomics. Today, he is also a part owner of the company Malmstolen AB (www.malmstolen.se), a company concentrating on developing and producing high quality office chairs.

As a photographer, he works both traditionally and more experimentally. He always works with the camera without using any "trick filters" or digital manipulation in the computer, except traditional repro. He has worked a lot with developing his "impressionistic/expressionistic" technique, to use the camera as a brush, which results in images more looking like paintings than photographs. This technigue is very difficult, and Erik Malm makes heavy demands upon the result. These kind of images have started to become very successful as Fine Art Prints sold to collectors, companies etc. The result are often compared with the art of Claude Monet and other impressionistic and expressionistic artists.

Member of Swedish Nature Photographer's Association