About 

Welcome to my website! Thanks for visiting! In case it’s not already obvious, I love infrared photography! I have specialized in this rare art form for the last 25 years and have worked very hard to evolve this beautiful medium. My goal has always been to give my investors the very best in very high resolution, high dynamic range fine art color infrared photography.

My artwork is neo-classical in that I create single-exposure color infrared photographs with very little editing. The secret behind my “Dreamscape” artwork is my use of a special camera (made by the collaboration of 2 companies) that captures many wavelengths of light humans cannot see along with the wavelengths we can. It is the simultaneous capture of invisible and visible light in a single exposure that creates the unique palette of hues and glowing tones in my photographs. My art is not digital art. It depends very directly on the special hardware I use - my camera and external filters. My editing process is minimal. I optimize my images for printing without any AI, HDR, or compositing, and I print my artwork exactly as I frame it in-camera. These are very old-school elements of my technique.

I call my work “Dreamscapes” because they combine the feel of fantastical landscape paintings and the resolution of our best professional cameras.  Photographing already beautiful locations in color infrared gives them a surreal quality that takes the artwork to a new expressive level.  Color infrared photography is an extremely rare type of photography, and it is always very motivating to hear visitors and collectors tell me that they’ve never seen anything like my photographs before.  Many of my collectors enjoy the fact that displaying my artwork is a lovely talking point - and something none of their guests have in their homes.

I feel very blessed to be so supported in my passion for fine art infrared photography! I sell my work as very limited editions - to increase their value for investors - but I also offer hand-colored originals. Interestingly, hand-coloring my infrared photographs was how I originally caught the attention of the NY Times back in 2004. Recently, I have been re-inspired by the elegant, vintage feel of my hand-colored artwork and have created some new pieces. As originals, once they’re gone, they’re gone, but I welcome commissions to hand-color any of my photographs upon request.

You can see more of work - especially recent work I haven't yet added to this website - at my Instagram gallery @matthew_stuart_piper. My personal goal is to offer the most extensive and creative collection of world-class infrared landscape photographs created by a single individual anywhere.

I am so thankful to have had strong support from the infrared community, including sponsorships from Kolarivision, Hoya Filters, and Cokin filters. I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to share my story and vision in various podcasts, journals and news programs as well.

A little bit about me outside my art career…I have strong passions in science, psychology, philosophy, music and writing. In 2020, I finished a PhD in “philosophy and cognitive science” at UC San Diego. I have published on various facets of neuropsychology, including the neurobiological nature of consciousness. I am currently finishing editing a book that I first drafted over 20 years ago that unifies ideas in psychology, ethics, and the self-help genre. I intend to publish this book with a mainstream publisher in the next couple years. In my spare time, I compose little pieces on the piano, enjoy working hard out in the sun, and add to a comic strip I created about a precocious owl and his woodland friends - also intended for mass publication down the road.

Feel free to contact me with comments, questions or commissions at iammatthewpiper@gmail.com.

Cheers!

- Matthew