Matt WILSON*

Matt Wilson is a British photographer born in 1969 in Tonbridge (Kent, UK). In 1988, he moved to New York where he discovered his passion for photography. Self-taught, he learnt about analogue photography techniques through his various experiences as photographer’s assistant and in darkrooms. He eventually started exhibiting his prints in New York where he was spotted by Christine Ollier, then director of the gallery Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris, thus enabling him to gain international recognition.

Matt Wilson’s work is punctuated by his travels and encounters around the world (Ukraine, Cuba, United States, Lithuania…). His landscapes are the result of a meticulous work of composition and use of light which are reminiscent of the paintings of masters such as John Constable or Jacob van Ruisdael and evoke authentic travel diaries.

In 2015, he began a residency in Lithuania that led to the Hinterland series, which shows us the local rural landscape and the last inhabitants of villages that are on the verge of disappearing, through a vision that is both poetic and social, tinged with mystery. In Stateside, a project that he carried out since 2011, Matt Wilson focuses on the representation of forgotten American landscapes, symbols of the dissolution of The American Dream.

He was a finalist for the International Colour Award in 2007, the American Photography 22 in 2006 as well as for the Leica Oscar Barnack Award in 2015.