About Matt

Observation Without Presence

My path to photography and storytelling was accidental, beginning in 2007 with the clinical precision required of my career in dentistry. What started as a tool for documentation in the office became a gateway to a different kind of observation: the wilderness.

I am drawn to places where people are absent. From the sharks of Cocos Island to the braided rivers of Iceland, to the remote fjords of Svalbard I have found that beauty is not a performance—it exists whether it is documented or not. The deep-sea life of the Indo-Pacific and the glacial expanses of Greenland are indifferent to our gaze. They exist in a state of quiet, monumental independence.

My work is simply an attempt to witness this beauty—to capture the earth as it creates itself, far beyond the edges of the human world.