Matt Hamon is a freelance portrait photographer who lives in rural Montana. His photography exists conceptually and aesthetically in the spaces between photojournalism and staged editorial imagery. Matt hails from a small, remote town in Northern California. A sense of place informed by wandering the woods as a child inspires his enquiry. Self-described as "post-rural," Matt currently lives in Potomac, Montana near the Blackfoot River. Matt is a featured artist in Scott Ligon's, "Digital Art Revolution," ( Watson-Guptil/Random House). Matt's work has been featured on CNN, Outside Magazine, The Independent -UK, Lens Culture, LifeFramer, 1 Million Photographers (1MP), 6Mois.fr, Stern.de, morphyne.com, Edge of Humanity, Don't Take Pictures, and Month of Photography, Los Angeles (MOPLA). Matt was a finalist for the 2016 edition of "Nera di Verzasca Award," winner of the Diaframmi Chiusi Photography Prize, and IPHA 5 (Manifest's International Photography Annual). Matt recently had two portraits featured in the 2016 edition of the Taylor Wessing Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.
Living largely off the grid in rural Montana and picking clean what Native American hunters leave behind, the “Gleaners”, a group of primitive skills practitioners, offer us an intimate glance into the life of bison-hunt scavengers.
