Encounters is about experiences with the strange and unexplained. I spent the summer of 2006 traveling across America seeking out and photographing people who believe they have had their own encounters with UFOs, spirits, or monsters.
I went ghost busting—visiting haunted cemeteries, castles and plantations, possessed homes, and crypts. I went on expeditions to the hunting grounds for werewolves, swamp beasts, and other creatures. I toured places that would be more at home in The X-Files: Area 51, Roswell, and other UFO epicenters. I photographed each person at the scene of their encounter and tried to re-create the mood at which the encounter happened, so that you could feel a little closer to their experience.
These are their encounters.
Matt Hoyle