Paul Matte earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors in photography in 1984 and a Bachelor of Education in visual arts in 1985. He and his wife, Lise, live in Brockville, Ontario, where he is retired after thirty-one years of teaching students to be creative and to think beyond the obvious.
Paul's compositions are influenced by his interest with street photographer Gary Winogrand, surrealist painter René Magritte, and his mentors Canadian photographers Lynne Cohen, Evergon, Geoffery James and Michael Schreier. A published author and photographer, his work has won awards in several international competitions. His book Open Aperture is available globally.
