Report on contemporary photographer Matthew Brant

The first contemporary photographer I've found interesting is Matthew Brant. He has a rather large set of works called 'lakes and reservoirs' which I took great interest in for many reasons. One of the reasons being the way he soaks a lot of the photographs after taking them to give them an explosion of colour and almost a slight surreal look which really intrigues me. It is definitely something I'd like to try in some of my own work to give it the same or effect. He take the photographs at long distances while keeping the main attraction in the middle, in this case the lake or reservoir. On the other hand some of his other works called 'Dust' Are the opposite in the way that instead of a natural surrounding he chose to photograph derelict buildings and edits them to give them a black, white and hazed feeling to it. This technique could be used in photos of buildings for my own portfolio since it has such a great effect.