Matt Redfern
Matt Redfern is a panorama and nature photographer primarily based in Oregon, USA. He initially picked up a digital camera to doc his travels. Later, his love for the outside and delight of the photographic course of led him to focus totally on panorama and nature images. Falling deeper into the artwork type, Matt discovered that images turned greater than only a means to an finish – it additionally taught him extra in regards to the world round him and related him deeper to position. He now finds himself aiming to create expressive and significant photographs as he continues to evolve on this area.
Michéla Griffith
In 2012 I paused by my native river and all the things modified. I’ve moved away from what many count on pictures to be: my photographs deconstruct the literal and reimagine the subjective, reflecting the curiosity that water has impressed in my apply. Water has been my conduit: it has sharpened my imaginative and prescient, given me permission to experiment and continues to introduce me to new methods of seeing.
Matt Redfern grew up surrounded by the fantastic thing about the outside. Nature was a supply of consolation and inspiration, however his love for images developed later after he settled in California. Initially influenced by what he noticed on social media, he credit the Covid19 journey restrictions with encouraging him to discover extra native and intimate scenes. Since transferring to Oregon, Matt has targeting capturing scenes that convey a narrative or maintain private that means for him.
You say that you simply hate writing about your self, so apologies upfront… however let’s start a dialog. Would you want to start out by telling readers somewhat about your self – the place you grew up, what your early pursuits have been, and what you went on to do? It feels like the outside has lengthy been a spot of consolation for you.
I ought to have mentioned I battle to write down about myself. ‘Hate’ is perhaps somewhat too dramatic. I feel that’s as a result of it’s exhausting to sum up who I’m precisely in a paragraph or two, however I’ll do my finest right here. Ha-ha.
I grew up in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. My childhood was full of plenty of time within the outdoor, whether or not outdoors at our house or on household journeys. We might usually go on tenting journeys in our massive three room tent to accommodate our household of six. It might virtually all the time rain closely on us, too, however one way or the other, we endured and largely had enjoyable. My dad was additionally an avid deer hunter. Once I was sufficiently old to go, we might camp for days and hike into the woods every morning earlier than dawn and once more within the early afternoon earlier than sundown. We’d carry heavy tree stands on our again used for climbing up tall pine bushes the place we might sit and await deer. I don’t hunt anymore, however I feel this background gave me extra of an appreciation and understanding of forests. It turned a spot of consolation. More often than not, I’d by no means see deer, however I’d watch birds and squirrels going about their day, completely unaware of my presence. I discovered the best way to discover sure options within the forest, akin to recognizing animal patterns/behaviors, in addition to the best way to navigate earlier than we had GPS.
