Matt Holland
Matt specialises in long-exposure photography and astrophotography, whether it’s in the mountains or on the coast and in whatever weather. Based near the Dartmoor National Park in England, Matt is a committed lover of the great outdoors and is a long-term user of Olympus (now OM System) cameras. matthollandphoto.com
As the legendary photojournalist Sir Don McCullin once said, there’s little point in shooting landscapes in the summer – the skies aren’t dramatic enough and the trees aren’t naked. So what does an outdoor photographer do in the warmer months? Matt Holland has a good way of preventing his camera kit from gathering dust in a drawer – he thought he’d give infrared photography a go and he hasn’t looked back since. Based near Dartmoor, Holland has on his doorstep one of the best locations to immortalise in this other-worldly style. In simple terms, infrared photography renders foliage as white and blue skies as black, therefore allowing its practitioners to capture familiar views in a different way.
This photographic style requires special kit so it’s not every day we can shoot infrared. Naturally, as soon as Matt invited us to spend a morning with him to see it in practice, we were there quicker than a Dartmoor pony bolting from some noisy ramblers.
