Interview with Katherine Oktober Matthews on TEDxAmsterdam
“It’s good to have critics, because they force you to work harder and make your case.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (TEDxAmsterdam)
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (TEDxAmsterdam)
Fruits de Mer
Hake with Clams in a Salsa Verde. One of six dishes from my latest project, The Ocean Cleanup: Fruits de Mer, a collaboration with executive chef Aaron Tighe of Circle of Misse, with inspiration – and plastics – sourced from…
Iconic Cult Photographer
Some of my work with the Harinezumi camera as well as an interview with me will be featured in the book Toy Tokyo, a study of toy camera photography based in Tokyo. “Included in the book is work by some…
King’s Day, 2014
King’s Day Amsterdam, 2014 – A day renowned for its excesses of orange, photographed in black and white.
Sometimes the most sublime sunsets are grey
“Were you up high?” asks Kuan. “High enough to die,” says I.
And I don’t know why it was wrong for you that the sky fell into pieces
Who are you, to ask the sky for anything, to hold itself together, to luminesce iridescence, to show you glimpses of God?
Elsewhere (a work-in-progress)
“An old man calls over to where I’m sitting on a bench, from around 30 paces away, and asks if I feel like talking. It’s a reasonable enough request – I’m not doing anything but watching the water from up…