MATT NEUSTADTER
I’m Matt Neustadter and I won’t write about myself from a 3rd person perspective.
I am a passionate outdoor enthusiast who finds the most joy while being immersed in nature and submerged underwater. I have been passionate about the ocean and it’s biology before I could even define the meaning of passion. As a kid, the aquarium was my Disney… Even the fish section at Petsmart was exciting.
As I grew older, the appreciation of the sea, and the sciences for that matter, never lost its ‘amazement’ factor that was initially instilled in me from childhood. By the time I was in highschool, I excelled in the sciences but also gained a new interest in creativity. I became amazed by the functionality of cameras and their effortless ability to capture life’s fleeting moments in both stills and video (it’s still such a wild concept.) I ended up taking 4 years of media studies which became supplemented in college with different film and photography elective courses while getting a degree in marine biology.
Throughout my collegiate and professional years, I struggled to define what was a ‘career option,’ versus what was a passionate hobby. I ultimately wanted to find the harmony between passion and productivity, so I went back to school for a postgraduate degree in Advertising to pursue the creative side of branding for businesses.
I put a lot of myself into my advertising career while simultaneously working at bettering my crafts of passion. In my spare time, I studied freediving and became certified in open-water apnea & safety, took more courses on photography and video editing, and eventually started to get paid offers for the work I enjoyed most. After years of working my way into senior positions at some of the biggest named agencies such as Vice, TBWA, & DDB, I had received numerous accolades for my work and learned a lot about the industry as well as maintaining client relations. Ultimately I came to a point where I decided to leave that career path in order to pursue my own route of building value for brands through meaningful, engaging photography and videography.
STADTER
Outdoor
and Lifestyle
Photography.
I’m Matt Neustadter and I won’t write about myself from a 3rd person perspective.
I am a passionate outdoor enthusiast who finds the most joy while being immersed in nature and submerged underwater. I have been passionate about the ocean and it’s biology before I could even define the meaning of passion. As a kid, the aquarium was my Disney… Even the fish section at Petsmart was exciting.
As I grew older, the appreciation of the sea, and the sciences for that matter, never lost its ‘amazement’ factor that was initially instilled in me from childhood. By the time I was in highschool, I excelled in the sciences but also gained a new interest in creativity. I became amazed by the functionality of cameras and their effortless ability to capture life’s fleeting moments in both stills and video (it’s still such a wild concept.) I ended up taking 4 years of media studies which became supplemented in college with different film and photography elective courses while getting a degree in marine biology.
Throughout my collegiate and professional years, I struggled to define what was a ‘career option,’ versus what was a passionate hobby. I ultimately wanted to find the harmony between passion and productivity, so I went back to school for a postgraduate degree in Advertising to pursue the creative side of branding for businesses.
I put a lot of myself into my advertising career while simultaneously working at bettering my crafts of passion. In my spare time, I studied freediving and became certified in open-water apnea & safety, took more courses on photography and video editing, and eventually started to get paid offers for the work I enjoyed most. After years of working my way into senior positions at some of the biggest named agencies such as Vice, TBWA, & DDB, I had received numerous accolades for my work and learned a lot about the industry as well as maintaining client relations. Ultimately I came to a point where I decided to leave that career path in order to pursue my own route of building value for brands through meaningful, engaging photography and videography.
MATT NEU
A quote would look cool here. - Matt Neustadter
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