Meet Us: About Your Photography Team

We are an Atlanta-based photography and video team that loves people, family, friends, travel, and adventure. We are passionate about what we do and travel all over specializing in non-traditional, offbeat, uniquely awesome people with an adventurous spirit. Best of all, we have no travel fees in the continental US complimentary with our wedding collections! While we do work hard, actually extremely hard, to provide you with photographs, albums, and wall art you will love forever, we also strive to provide an amazing experience you will truly enjoy. After getting to know a little about us, be sure to get to know our style and approach and what dozens of our amazing clients have said about their experience with us.

GET TO KNOW – MATT

Hi, I’m Matt! Since we are going to be getting to know each other really well, I thought I would start. I have spent most of my life traveling and living in dozens of different states/cities due to my parents being in the military and experiencing life as a professional skateboarder. Atlanta, Georgia is now where I call home with my beautiful wife Jessica and rad son Mason (Mason on Instagram). My son and I also have a gaming channel on YouTube called MaseBotTV where we love to create fun, family-friendly gaming content. We also have two adopted and extremely playful rescue schnauzers, Jetta and Little Bear. 

I’m a high-energy, but super laidback, and extremely sarcastic type of person. I can be shy, but I’m not scared to strike up a conversation. My style, both in photography and life, is a little random, a little minimalistic, some work, some play, and a lot of awesome. I really like ice cream, but hate ice cream cones. I love to talk, and I am always fascinated by the stories people have to tell. I also have a slight obsession with traveling, learning, adventure, and technology.

I also have a passion for shoes. In fact, I use to own over 200+ shoes! I know, crazy! I’ve since learned to compromise with Jessica. I love music. Pretty much all music….really. I play guitar in a rock band, play a little drums for fun, and I’m often listening to My Chemical Romance, Green Day, The Used, Queen, Jonny Cash, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry, Pearl Jam, Bill Withers, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Daft Punk, Van Halen, The Who, Run DMC, NAS, N.W.A., De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang, Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, some dope blues stuff, and even some good country and classical stuff. I don’t watch much TV, but movies help inspire my passion for storytelling and dramatic lighting. I also really enjoy history and science, reading, and I love to actively invest and trade stocks. I’m also a HUGE fan of blockchain technology, crypto, and fight hard to teach financial literacy for ALL, fair and transparent markets, and decentralization.

In my free time, I like to hang out with my family and friends, draw, paint, play the guitar, drums, video games, skateboard, work on Volkswagens / Audis, and design things that are cool, at least to me. I enjoy reading, mostly non-fiction books and try to read one book a month. I’m also a Podcast junkie listening to a lot of business and finance stuff, but also dig things like My Favorite Murder (who doesn’t love a great murder story!?), Stuff You Should Know, Stuff You Missed in History Class, The Cultcast, and tons more. Oh, I also love coffee, LOTS OF COFFEE, craft beer, and hot sauce. No…seriously…I really love coffee, craft beer, and hot sauces!!

– Matt

 

GET TO KNOW – JESSICA

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L.H.K. Always & Forever

Hi! My name is Jessica. I’m Matt’s better half and office manager here at Matthew Druin & Co. Occasionally you might see me helping out or we’ll meet (I go on all the super cool travel trips, lol.), but I mostly stay behind the scenes. Aside from loving my husband, I love and adore our son Mason. In my spare time, I mostly hang out with our son and crazy dogs. I also enjoy my passion for makeup, youtube, European history, and reality TV.   – Jessica 

 

GET TO KNOW – DAN

Hey guys, I’m Dan! I live in Alpharetta, Georgia, with the love of my life, Corrina, and our awesome puppy, Dusty. Matt and I met when we were taking our first drawing classes in art school many, many years ago. I started shooting photography with Matt and we’ve been close friends since. I’m a fun and outgoing guy, and I’d love to get to know you! Here’s a little about me…

I grew up in a very large family (I’ve got 38 cousins that live all around the world!) that came to Georgia from Ecuador, South America, and I was lucky to have such a huge network of support when it came to the arts. My mother was a chef and owned a restaurant in her country, and several of my uncles are successful painters and musicians.

I would say that Spanish culture has greatly influenced my style as well as my personality, but I must have missed the day where they taught us how to dance because I have two left feet! I love to cook, draw and paint, and there’s rarely an occasion where you won’t find me taking pictures. I enjoy lazy Sundays with a craft beer and a good book, but I especially love cozying up with my family and reading Calvin and Hobbes. I guess I’m just an adventuring spaceman at heart.       – Dan

 

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