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)
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…
Interview for Toy Tokyo
"Sometimes my friends tell me stories of things that I know never happened – but how can you prove whose memory is correct? Photographs don’t prove anything because they’re not facts, they’re narratives."
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Toy Tokyo, 2014)
Portfolio Review at Voies Off
I’ll be among the portfolio reviewers at the Voies Off alternative photo festival in Arles — registrations now open!
Alain de Botton: Art as Therapy
“Why should art always be so silent, always be so meek in its desire to change the world…? I think it’s a disaster to leave it so that the only people trying to change existence are large corporations and bigoted polemical groups."
—Alain de Botton (TEDxAmsterdam)
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…
Plot Points: How Reading and Writing Have Ruined Us All
“While it’s relatively straight-forward to identify relevance in a story, expert constellation-formers that we are, here’s the rub: life is chock-full of irrelevance and we all like to play narrator.”
(Versal Blog, 2014)
Portfolio Review at Arles
I’ll be among the expert reviewers at the fantastic photo festival Les Rencontres d’Arles, on behalf of GUP Magazine. If you’re interested in having your work reviewed, sign up now! (Or, if you’re also attending, let me know!)