Matthew Tangeman | Adventure Photo & Video Matthew Tangeman | Adventure Photo & Video

About

I'm a documentary style photographer, cinematographer, and above all else, an adventurer.

I am an alpinist and ski mountaineer - tracing beautiful lines through beautiful mountains is my passion and is what called me to this art in the first place.

I have been on this path for a long time. I learned to ski at the same time I learned to walk. I first picked up a camera as a ten year old, and began summiting some of the North Cascades' highest peaks, solo, as a teenager. Though the glaciers and rainforests of the Pacific Northwest will always be home, I currently live on the Dolores River in Southwest Colorado - where the San Juan Mountains meet the red rock desert - and won't be leaving any time soon.

The future is local, and community is everything. I strongly believe in local ideas, local business, and the power of people working together.

I'm as excited to tell the story of a local non-profit as I am documenting a cutting-edge alpine climb - everyone deserves to have their story told with the same passion they live it with. At the center of it all is the spirit and intensity that makes us human, and the beauty of the planet we get to live on.

Let's make art.






A self portrait in the eastern Sierra Nevada.