Ground is Matthew Borowick's body of landscape photography shot from the earth, exploring how terrain, light, and altitude reveal a location's character. Prints are available in limited editions for residential and hospitality interiors.


Iceland has approximately ten thousand waterfalls, three hundred days of rain per year, and landscapes that look as though the planet is still deciding what shape it wants to take. These photographs were made at ground level — close enough to feel the cold, to hear the water, to understand that scale here is not a photographic trick but a physical fact. From the black sand of Reynisfjara to the ice caves of Breiðamerkurjökull to the rhyolite highlands of Landmannalaugar, this is Iceland as it exists before the helicopter arrives and after the tour buses leave.


What makes Ground different from your aerial work?
Ground is shot entirely at eye level, without a drone or aircraft. It's about scale and texture experienced in person — the cold, the sound, the physical presence of a landscape — rather than pattern and abstraction from above.

Where are these photographs taken?
Primarily Iceland, with additional work from Alabama Hills, California and Tofino, British Columbia.

Are prints available?

Yes, in limited editions, sized for both residential and hospitality interiors.

Photograph of lava flowing from a volcano at golden hour sunset, Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of small icebergs in front of a snow capped mountain in Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of a person standing in front of a volcano at nighttime, Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of a hiker underneath a large ice shelf in Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of a car driving up a road in Alabama Hills, California — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of a hiker standing on a wooden path in Tofino, BC, Canada — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of a firework exploding in front of icebergs in Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of an abandoned structure in Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of a stormy coast at sunset in Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of hikers climbing a mountain in the highlands of Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of a hang glider in front of a waterfall in the highlands of Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of a mountain in Landmannalauger in the highlands of Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of sheep eating grass in front of  a winding hot spring, in Iceland — Matthew Borowick
Photograph of Reynisdrangar, basalt sea stacks situated under the mountain Reynisfjall near the village of Vík í Mýrdal in southern Iceland — Matthew Borowick
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