Tag: Matt Eich

  • Photographers on Photographers: Zachary Kaufman in Conversation with Matt Eich – LENSCRATCH

    Photographers on Photographers: Zachary Kaufman in Conversation with Matt Eich – LENSCRATCH

    Photographers on Photographers: Zachary Kaufman in Conversation with Matt Eich – LENSCRATCH Matt Eich is a tenacious storyteller, whose work is largely defined by long-term projects that offer intimate depictions of the American condition. I first saw Matt’s photographs as a featured alumni on the Eddie Adams Workshop site in 2006. At that time, via…

  • Photography from Appalachia: 5 Projects Explore a Complex Place

    Photography from Appalachia: 5 Projects Explore a Complex Place

    Photography from Appalachia: 5 Projects Explore a Complex Place Five photographers reveal a complex and ambivalent portrait of a mysterious place in this collection of photography from Appalachia. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/04/photography-from-appalachia-5-projects-explore-a-complex-place/ “I’m certainly aware of the stereotypes, clichés, and exploitation this area has been exposed to by many entities,” the photographer Rich-Joseph Facun once…

  • Announcing the Winning Artists of the Creator Labs Photo Fund

    Announcing the Winning Artists of the Creator Labs Photo Fund

    Announcing the Winning Artists of the Creator Labs Photo Fund Meet the twenty winning artists recognized by Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs for their exceptional photographic visions. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/announcing-creator-labs-photo-fund-winners-2021/ This summer, Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs teamed up to launch a new initiative, the Creator Labs Photo Fund, aimed at providing financial support to…

  • Matt Eich’s The Seven Cities – AMERICAN SUBURB X

    Matt Eich’s The Seven Cities – AMERICAN SUBURB X

    Matt Eich’s The Seven Cities “Everything seems somehow familiar and distant at the same time. It is as if time has wedged us between the fever dream of summer and the insoluble gaslighting conjured up from what was believed to be a significantly flawed, but tolerable near past” via AMERICAN SUBURB X: https://americansuburbx.com/2021/01/matt-eichs-the-seven-cities.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=matt-eichs-the-seven-cities “Everything seems…

  • Photographer Matt Eich examines and celebrates his local roots in his book ‘The Seven Cities’ – The Virginian-Pilot – The Virginian-Pilot

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    Photographer Matt Eich examines and celebrates his local roots in his book ‘The Seven Cities’ "The Seven Cities" is the third in his series called "The Invisible Yoke." Here he looks at the people and places of Hampton Roads, and at the weight of memory. via pilotonline.com: https://www.pilotonline.com/entertainment/books/vp-db-book-seven-cities-matt-eich-120620-20201206-samwcxp6jnahblykszjdbbv544-story.html Eich’s latest photography book, “The Seven Cities,”…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Matt Eich’s Seasonal Blues

    Juxtapoz Magazine – Matt Eich’s Seasonal Blues A new exhibition of work by Matt Eich at jdc fine art draws from a year and a half of prolific image-making in an ongoing visual journal series t… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/matt-eich-s-seasonal-blues/ A new exhibition of work by Matt Eich at jdc fine art draws from a year and a half…

  • Carry Me Ohio: The Book | Luceo Images

    Link: In February of 2006 I unknowingly began making images that would later become an all-consuming project  lasting for more than four years. I am excited to announce the first real printing of this body of work. Edited by Mike Davis and designed by his wife Deb Pang Davis of Cococello Design, it contains an…

  • Matt Eich, Norfolk, Virginia

    Link: Matt Eich (b. 1986) is a freelance photographer and founding member of Luceo Images. His work is rooted in memory, both personal and collective and he strives to approach every photograph with a sense of intimacy. He believes that stories are the fabric of history and that they have the power to inform and…

  • matt eich – carry me ohio | burn magazine

    matt eich – carry me ohio [slidepress gallery=’matteich-carrymeohio’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls EPF 2010 Finalist Matt Eich Carry Me Ohio play this essay   Once known for … via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/matt-eich-carry-me-ohio/ In this series of images I show the isolated and trapped residents of Southeastern Ohio. From Hercules…

  • APhotoADay Blog » ‘Carry Me Ohio’ hits Blurb

    Link: I mention the following probably just because I have Leicas on the brain after the past couple of days, but it strikes me that the S90 and S95 might be the up to the minute analog of the original Leica—the so-called “Barnack camera.” It’s capable but stealthy, as tiny as it can reasonably be,…

  • Finding Clarity in Ambiguity: Matt Eich on Rich-Joseph Facun – NYTimes.com

    Finding Clarity in Ambiguity: Matt Eich on Rich-Joseph Facun – NYTimes.com

    Finding Clarity in Ambiguity So a photographer walks into a bar. And, in the case of Matt Eich, he emerges with a newfound way of looking at the world. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/finding-clarity-in-ambiguity/ It was then that I lost the sense of guilt that used to come from making pictures that didn’t have an actual…

  • Best of 2010 (whatever that means) | Luceo Images

    Link: Righthaven, the Las Vegas copyright troll formed this spring, has moved beyond lawsuits over newspaper articles and begun targeting websites for the unauthorized reposting of images. First up, more than a dozen infringement lawsuits concerning the so-called Vdara “death ray.”

  • LUCEO Splits In Half, Raises Questions About Viability of Photo Collectives

    Link: As of Friday, photographers Matt Eich, Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks are no longer members of LUCEO, a photo collective which we’ve been following for quite some time.

  • The Sellers Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Connectedness | PROOF

    Link: Matt Eich: One day, while wandering a small village in southeastern Ohio, I stumbled on a rugged-looking man and his two sons cleaning up muddy dirt bikes at a car wash. Most of the folks I had encountered up until this point were incredibly distrustful of outsiders, so I was immediately drawn in by…

  • Matt Eich – Say Hello to Everybody, OK? « burn magazine

    Matt Eich – Say Hello to Everybody, OK?   Matt Eich Say Hello to Everybody, OK? [ EPF 2019 FINALIST ] In 2019-2020 I will be commuting from Charlottesville, Virginia to Washington, D.C. via train on a weekly basis. I also intend to walk … via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2019/09/matt-eich-say-hello-to-everybody-ok/ In 2019-2020 I will be commuting…

  • Matt Eich: I Love You, I’m Leaving | LENSCRATCH

    Matt Eich: I Love You, I’m Leaving | LENSCRATCH

    Matt Eich: I Love You, I’m Leaving At this particular time I have no one Particular person to grieve for, though there must Be many, many unknown ones going to dust I often recall this verse by Elizabeth Jennings from her poem In Memory of Anyone Unknown to Me when I view images that cause via…

  • Matt Eich – I Love You, I’m Leaving « burn magazine

    Matt Eich – I Love You, I’m Leaving Matt Eich I Love You, I’m Leaving [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] My introduction to photography was in childhood, as my grandmother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease. The hopelessness of … via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/epf-2017/2017/11/matt-eich-i-love-you-im-leaving/ My introduction to photography was in childhood, as my grandmother was…

  • A Hidden American Anger

    A Hidden American Anger Life in Ohio’s proud but economically abandoned small towns via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/12/carry-me-ohio/507539/ Just over a decade ago, Matt Eich started photographing rural Ohio. Largely inhabited by what is now known as the “Forgotten Class” of white, blue-collar workers, Eich found himself drawn to the proud but economically abandoned small towns…

  • “I Feel Forgotten”: A Decade of Struggle in Rural Ohio – The New Yorker

    “I Feel Forgotten”: A Decade of Struggle in Rural Ohio – The New Yorker

    “I Feel Forgotten”: A Decade of Struggle in Rural Ohio Long before Trump began appealing to rural white America, the photographer Matt Eich spent years listening to what people who feel forgotten have to say. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/i-feel-forgotten-a-decade-of-struggle-in-rural-ohio?mbid=rss Long before Trump began appealing to rural white America, the photographer Matt Eich spent years…

  • I spent 10 years photographing Appalachia – Vantage – Medium

    I spent 10 years photographing Appalachia – Vantage – Medium

    I spent 10 years photographing Appalachia Carry Me Ohio: the place that taught me to see via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/i-spent-10-years-photographing-appalachia-d5692dfec5bf#.71ppvmbvf Matt Eich: More than a decade ago, I arrived broken hearted in the Appalachian region of southeast Ohio. I was fascinated by the haunting hills, the winding roads, and found myself photographing everything: the smokey bars,…