Patrick Imrutai Photography

About

A Landscape Photographer of Aotearoa

Story

Patrick Imrutai is a landscape photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand. Photography has been his life-long passion but not as much as the love he has for nature. Patrick has moved to New Zealand in year 2000 and his first trip to Milford Sound in Fiordland, the breathtaking panoramic view has changed the way Imrutai saw the world. He developed a deep passion through this land. After that trip he purchased his first camera and hasn’t stop perfecting his skill since.

With several years as a self-taught photographer comes an award winner Landscape photographer. The visual drama and artistry of his keen eyes for many moods of nature, Imrutai never fail to capture amazing light, dramatic cloud and well-balanced composition. His vision attracted a wide audience from New Zealand and overseas. With his sense of epic and bold he create a unique moment that generate the magic and energy of the wilderness. Expressing his feeling through the place he visited and bring his experience forward; his images evoke an emotional response and immediate connection with its viewers.

Imrutai shows a deep appreciation for the beauty of natural environment and a desire to see it preserved and he expresses passionately in defence of the natural world. The pursuit of a pure, unsullied depiction of nature devoid of human influence, instead featuring subjects such as strongly defined landforms, weather and ambient light. While everything in nature does this for Imrutai, selecting the right places and moments to make a photograph that conveys those emotions is far more difficult.
Imrutai intension is for our next generation to feel the deep connection unlike anything that can be found in today’s industrialised world. There is a certain freedom that comes only when we are immersed in the natural world.

Through delivering images of visual reality, nature in its raw yet unparalleled magnificent; Imrutai continues to share his experience in the wilderness through his lenses. With one thing in mind, for the Beauty of New Zealand landscape and this wonderful planet will ever be cherished in our memory.

Credit: Jayda Intoratat