Matthew Borowick

Matthew Borowick is a New York-based photographer whose work moves between the earth, the sky, and the space in between. Shooting from the ground and from drones, he pursues a single obsession: finding the moments when a landscape reveals something about itself that is only visible from exactly the right angle, altitude, or light.


Artist Statement

There is a version of every landscape that the human eye will never see. These photographs go looking for it.

Inspired by Kodak Aerochrome, the discontinued false-color infrared film that turned the natural world into something between a fever dream and a revelation, this work is made with a full-spectrum converted camera paired with an orange bandpass filter. The technique blocks visible light entirely, exposing only the infrared wavelengths that pass through foliage, atmosphere, and shadow in ways that daylight photography never captures.

The effect is immediate and disorienting. Green vegetation becomes a burning amber. Surfaces that appear flat in conventional light reveal texture, depth, and presence. What reads at first as a color effect is, in practice, a different way of seeing, one that asks whether the world we photograph is the world that actually exists, or simply the one we've agreed to accept.

These are not altered images. They are accurate ones. Just not to the light you're used to.


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