Seldon Hunt

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| birth_date = 1969

| birth_place = Melbourne, Australia

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| occupation = Graphic designer, illustrator, documentary film maker, photographer, artist

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Seldon Hunt (born 1969, in Melbourne{{Cite web|url=http://www.designshard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/issue-101.pdf|title=Sheldon Hunt|work=Grand Designs|publisher=Design Shard|last=Taylor|first=Darren|accessdate=17 June 2011}} and migrated to New York in 2006,{{Cite web|url=http://www.unifiedmanufacturing.com/blog/designer-of-the-week-seldon-hunt/|title=Featured CD Packaging Designer: Seldon Hunt|date=22 April 2010 |publisher=Unified Manufacturing|accessdate=17 June 2011}} (now residing in Brooklyn) is an artist best known for his photography and his graphic artwork (on album covers and promotional poster) for rock musicians.[http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=52859 Metal Underground website]. Retrieved 16 February 2010.[http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=134909 Rad Runner Records website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212232523/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=134909 |date=12 February 2010 }}. Retrieved 16 February 2010.[http://www.discordance.fr/Baroness-Nebra-a-la-Maroquinerie,1456.html Fiscordance website (in French)]. Retrieved 16 February 2010.

Hunt's photography usually consists of thick undergrowth yet is often devoid of any human presence. His work has been compared to the romantic landscape painting of the 19th Century. His influences include the works of Vaughan Oliver and Neville Brody.

Hunt is best known in the world of music for his graphic works – often extremely complex – for rock bands Neurosis, Earth, Jesu, Isis, Dälek, Mick Harris, Acid Mothers Temple, and the Melvins.{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/seldon-hunt-p538464/credits |title=Seldon Hunt – Credits|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=17 June 2011}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Seldon+Hunt|title=Seldon Hunt – Credits|publisher=discogs|accessdate=17 June 2010}} His first album cover artwork was for a solo album by KK Null (Zeni Geva).{{Cite web|url=http://www.bloodandfire.ro/content/10-seldon-hunt|title=Seldon Hunt|publisher=Blood & Fire Productions|accessdate=17 June 2011}}{{Cite web|url=http://hammersmashedsound.blogspot.com/2009/07/seldon-hunt-interview.html|title=Seldon Hunt interview|date=20 July 2009|publisher=Hammer Smashed Sound|accessdate=17 June 2011}} As a photographer who's obsessed with a vacuumesque conception of landscape, he has regularly working with Stephen O'Malley from Sunn O)))) and the label Southern Lord. His work is also associated with many other labels such as Hydrahead, Ipecac, TeePee and Relapse Records.

As a writer, he is the author of the cosmic essay published in the booklet of Sunn O)))’s The Grimmrobe Demos.{{Cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7580-the-grimmrobe-demos/|title=Sunn O))) – The Grimrobe Demos|work=Pitchfork|last=Stosuy|first=Brandon|date=17 May 2005|accessdate=17 June 2011}}

Seldon Hunt's already cult iconography for the current metal and experimental scenes, is gradually moving on from the visual world of music to contemporary art. Following in the footsteps of artists like Raymond Pettibon his work is now finding a path into the fine art world.{{Or|date=February 2010}}

Seldon Hunt is part of a new generation of artists who feel attuned to a desire for their work to move away from the city/urban and the inherent tumult resulting from the self-destruction of a consumer society.

His subject matter is found in the forgotten urban parklands late at night where he endlessly walks patches of preserved nature close to the extremely urban environment where he lives.{{Or|date=February 2010}}