Photo by Lydia Daniller

Matt lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He was born in Los Angeles but grew up in a small town on the Central Coast of California, where he learned the value of a good pun.  He studied history at the University of California at Berkeley (BA, 1993) before pursuing graduate studies at the University of Oregon (MA, 1995) and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.  He took up photography seriously in 1993.  His other interests include jazz and bicycling (especially long tours).

Although initially interested in landscape subjects, the complex tangle of human beings and their myriad relationships with each other, themselves and the world in which they live eventually drew Matt to portraiture and photojournalistic subjects.  His work has appeared in Communities magazine and was featured for several years on the website of the University Students' Cooperative Association (now the Berkeley Student Co-op) in Berkeley, California.

Among the photographers he counts as favorites and influences are Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus, Lauren Greenfield, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Richard Avedon, Garry Winogrand, Ansel Adams and August Sander. Please see the contact page for more information.