Her photographic projects are inspired by personal experience, psychology and social problems. She stages emotions, vulnerability, and traces of human encounters.. She works in b/w and colour based on a pure visual language, and uses sometimes a poetic, sometimes a concrete expression.

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Together with hannah goldstein, Berlin, Maria has started a course platform Hold Forth Photography. They will offer online workshops and courses as an aesthetic break from everyday life and work for people with a camera and a great interest in art photography. In the aesthetic break, they want to open up for an in-depth moment based on the practice of the course participants and other photographers.

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Maria blogs sporadically at Maria Sandgren Studio (in Swedish). She writes about photography, learning, creativity, and psychology.

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For Maria, linking psychology to photography means gaining more perspectives on artistic practice and expression. Psychology is a big subject and has the task of investigating what it is to be human in terms of how thoughts, feelings and actions vary among different contexts and individuals. Psychology can be criticised for being normative, while Maria thinks of psychology more as revealing more facets of being human. In this way, psychology, like poetry and photography, are places for broadening perspectives.