Karl Frederick Mattson
Karl Frederick Mattson is a photo-taker, movie-maker, and ephemera-collector based in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Karl grew up in a rural Connecticut town where image-making became a significant creative outlet early on. Influenced by his father, who quietly surveyed and documented the landscape on family vacations throughout New England, Karl studies the slowness of the environment, often seeking out overlooked nuances left behind by society.
Karl received a BFA in photography from the Hartford Art School in 2014. He has worked as an art handler and a time-based media technician for several large-scale art museums throughout the Northeast. With prowess in technical and archival methods, Karl strives to innovate and maintain the advancement of the Photography Program’s analog facilities.