Strung together, Matthew Porter's photographs present a subjective cluster of both absurd fantasy and muted desire. Their fantastic spectacle is sometimes spoiled by their equally negative iconography. Light splashes over the top of the Nazi sponsored Hindenburg as it soars over the American West. A large image of a dying nebulae in space, or that of an emasculated fort in Maine, serve as establishing shots for a non-existing narrative.
Matthew Porter was born in Pennsylvania in 1975 and attended Bard and Bard/ ICP for a BA and MFA, respectively, in Advanced Photographic Studies. He has contributed work to New York Magazine, Modern Painters, VMan, Exit and others. Porter teaches at the University of Maine and the International Center of Photography and lives and works in Brooklyn. Porter is the recipient of Photo District News' 30 New and Emerging Photographers in 2004 and the John Bard Award for Excellence in Photography from bard College in 1998.
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Matthew Porter was born in Pennsylvania in 1975 and attended Bard and Bard/ ICP for a BA and MFA, respectively, in Advanced Photographic Studies. He has contributed work to New York Magazine, Modern Painters, VMan, Exit and others. Porter teaches at the University of Maine and the International Center of Photography and lives and works in Brooklyn. Porter is the recipient of Photo District News' 30 New and Emerging Photographers in 2004 and the John Bard Award for Excellence in Photography from bard College in 1998.
See more work by Mathew Porter HERE
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