For his latest series Vatnajökull, Matthew Brandt exposed his photographs of Iceland’s Vatna ice field to fire and heat, and then, through color-separation, creates a range of tonalities across multiple impressions on a single image. With their blistered, undulating surfaces, each photograph emerges with a unique topography. The series marks an extension of the artist's on-going interest in the chemical color process and is his third to explore chromogenic material with natural elements.
Matthew Brandt’s photographic practice is relentlessly experimental, even as he remains committed to traditional elements of picture-making. The artist's unorthodox treatments and use of materials both dismantle and celebrate the classic genre of landscape photography, with his interventions inviting the viewer to develop a deeper relationship with a subject and the photograph.
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