Mia Green


Maria Amalia "Mia" Green was a Swedish photographer who has a park in her memory in Haparanda. She documented history in that area, particularly during the First World War and she was also involved in creating care for the elderly.

Life

She was born in Lundmark in Nor, Roslags-Bro Uppland on April 14, 1870.
She became a photographer in Haparanda, which is in Sweden but close to the border with Finland. Haparanda marked a point where the Swedish and Russian rail systems came very close to each other. Although her town was small it became very significant during the first world war where thousands of children, invalid prisoners of war and thousands of tonnes of mail was exchanged.
She was known for the photographic record that she created during the first world war which included Red Cross sisters and war invalids. In 1918 she recorded a typhus outbreak in Haparanda.
One of her students was Hilda Augusta Larsson who was Swedish but who would establish a photography business in Finland.
Her pictures recorded notable politicians, opera singers and nobility as well as revolutionaries, spies and smugglers, but she is also remembered for the work she did in establishing care for the elderly.
Green died in Haparanda Parish on 24 June 1949. She would have two children, Maria Lundmark and Lennart Green. She would in time be the grandmother of Marika Green and an ancestor of the actress Eva Green. The surname "Green" ]; is Swedish. It does not originate from the English word "green", which is "grön" in Swedish.
A memorial was created in her memory in her home parish with a bust by Lars Stålnacke.