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Matt Eich’s Fallen America | Ben Mauk | The New York Review of Books

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A Nation Deranged | Ben Mauk

The photobook is a strange medium. It combines two technologies—one about as old as Christianity, the other younger than the United States. If photographs

via The New York Review of Books: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/23/a-nation-deranged/

Matt Eich’s photobook series, “The Invisible Yoke,” is an exorcism of the country’s demons.

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/23/a-nation-deranged/?src=longreads

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

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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 LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/08/photographers-on-photographers-zachary-kaufman-in-conversation-with-matt-eich/

Matt Eich: You are right that the photographer dance is a tricky one – how to be emotionally engaged and present while also removed enough to see things clearly and render a scene in a lasting way? I advocate for young photographers getting to know their tools the way a musician knows their instrument. When it comes time to make, you don’t want to be caught up in the technical, you want to be in a somewhat Zen state, so the camera is less of a barrier between you and what is unfolding and more of a conduit for channeling a shared experience. This is idealistic, but occasionally comes to fruition.

Photography from Appalachia: 5 Projects Explore a Complex Place

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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 told us. “I want to be clear: I’m not here to define what Appalachia is or isn’t.” In this collection, we take a look back at some of the most powerful photography from Appalachia, created by five visual storytellers, each with a different perspective.

Announcing the Winning Artists of the Creator Labs Photo Fund

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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 photographers in the wake of COVID-19. Selected by Aperture’s editors, the twenty winning artists are recognized for their exceptional vision as well as the strength and originality of their portfolios, and will be awarded a prize of $5,000 each to sustain their work and practice.

Matt Eich’s The Seven Cities – AMERICAN SUBURB X

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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”

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“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”

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

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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,” is a look at the places and people that make up Hampton Roads. It shows the variety that anyone can discover in an hour’s drive from an oyster roast in Suffolk to a Russian Orthodox Church service in Virginia Beach to an Amtrak bus station stop in Newport News. It also illuminates the grief, hope, anxiety and laughter of its people.

Juxtapoz Magazine - Matt Eich's Seasonal Blues

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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 of prolific image-making in an ongoing visual journal series titled, Seasonal Blues. This string of work links moments together like a never-ending chain. A selection of the work exists as limited-edition prints and many more appear in small-run quarterly self-published books by the emerging artist (under the imprint Little Oak Press). Time- the fleeting baseline of life itself- is revealed in Eich’s Seasonal Blues. As Eich creates this image of the world, he seeks to locate himself within it.

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

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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 from Charlottesville, Virginia to Washington, D.C. via train on a weekly basis. I also intend to walk the train line in intervals, photographing the scenes I encounter on its peripheries. I view the train line as an artery between my home in Charlottesville (where my heart stays), and Washington, DC, the seat of power in the United States. During my days in Washington, DC I will document the dichotomy between the powerful and the powerless. During my days in Charlottesville, I will photograph my own family, and my community. The background for these images are the final days of Trump’s first term in office, and the lead-up to the next Presidential elections. By juxtaposing powerful circles in Washington, DC with the recovering community of Charlottesville, VA, and the largely rural area in between, I will attempt to put my finger on the pulse of our country during this critical time.

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

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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 LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/03/matt-eich-i-love-you-im-leaving/

I often recall this verse by Elizabeth Jennings from her poem In Memory of Anyone Unknown to Me when I view images that cause my heart to ache, that force me to empathize and consider the threads that join together our collective stories. The images in Matt Eich’s newest monograph, I Love You, I’m Leaving, published by Ceiba Editions, weave these threads into a complicated yet tender, semi-fictional portrait of a family enduring the chaos and elation of life. Every photograph is steeped in a familiar, heavy kind of tension that can be recognized by any viewer. We are invited to experience at once both pain and joy, love and frustration, closeness and distance, sharp reality and fleeting memory. Eich uses his camera to grasp at the apparitions of human experience, in his words, wrestling fragile memories into a permanent state. Everything from the cover image of a half-erased chalkboard, to the cyclical nature of the book sequence, echoes Eich’s attempts to construct something concrete from the intangible, creating at once a book object that feels both uniquely personal and profoundly universal.

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

Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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 dying of Alzheimer’s disease. The hopelessness of her plight triggered something within me, and when my grandfather handed me a camera, making photographs became a way of stabilizing the insecurity of memory and accessing emotional resonance. If we are at risk of forgetting too much of our world, and ourselves, photography is the antidote.

A Hidden American Anger

Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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 of Appalachia

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

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

“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 listening to what people who feel forgotten have to say.

I spent 10 years photographing Appalachia – Vantage – Medium

Wed, 19 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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, the strip mines and in the homes of these forgotten communities.

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

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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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 his open demeanor. He seemed just as curious about me as I was about him.

Getty Images Announces 2015 Grant Winners - The New York Times

Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Getty Images Announces 2015 Grant Winners

Photographers doing personal projects on social issues that often go overlooked received $10,000 each today from the 2015 Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/getty-images-announces-2015-grant-winners/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

Matt Eich, 29, received his second Getty grant for his project on poverty, heroin, and the oil and gas industries in southeastern Ohio. It is a continuation of his work from 2006 to 2012 in the area and will be published in the book “Carry Me Ohio” by Sturm and Drang next year.