Matthew Lindhardt

"Wilderness, to me, is spiritually imperative. Ever since I was a young boy, it was to the wilderness that I fled, in hopes of rescuing my tranquility and stability from the social world. The inexplicable spiritual occurrence of being in close proximity to nature invigorated my adolescent soul. It was during these young years, I discovered some of planet Earth’s intimate vibrancies, which seemed to be so deluded in these modern days of fragmentation. I view my work as a form of conservation. These light-polluted images of urban environments are derived from a world, from that I retreat.

The exposure to such angelic beauty reinforced my sense of dedication to use my photographic art as a stimulus for the human race to work as one to conserve the life-giving natural environment for future generations."