Installation views
Matthew’s photographs are full of coiled energy: crisp diagonal lines and sharply angled light direct my eye throughout his compositions. Several questions stay with me. What is the relationship between New Yorkers and their city? Can the organic shapes of a human form – a woman mid-stride on her morning commute – shift the energy of the angular inorganic lines of a building on an otherwise quiet street in Queens? I’m not sure. But I’m certainly drawn to the robin’s egg blue and egg yolk yellow behind her, lost in her phone, and in the day’s to-do lists.
-Text by Sasha Louis Bush
Artist Bio
Matthew Pritchard is a professional photographer living in New York City with his 10-year-old son, Walker.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Temple University. At Temple, he discovered his passion for the still image while studying film photography under Steven Berkowitz. After that, he pursued his love for writing, earning a master’s degree in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry at the New School for Social Research.
After nearly two decades away from the camera, he unexpectedly reawakened his lost passion for photography while on a trip to Tanzania with a group dedicated to helping children who had been orphaned because of AIDS. He has been joyfully taking photographs ever since.
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