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Interview with Katherine Oktober Matthews on TEDxAmsterdam

September 6, 2014
Biography, Creations

“It’s good to have critics, because they force you to work harder and make your case.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (TEDxAmsterdam)

Fruits de Mer

August 24, 2014
Creations

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…

Toy Tokyo

August 19, 2014
Creations

Toy Tokyo is now out in print and on sale. Focusing on photographers who have worked in Tokyo and Japan, Manami Okazaki’s book uses images and interviews to offer a survey of the history, passion and present of toy camera…

Creation of Eve

August 10, 2014
Creations

The Creation of Eve (a portrait session in black and white).

Interview for Toy Tokyo

July 27, 2014
Biography, Insights

"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

June 28, 2014
Events & Announcements

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

June 21, 2014
Interview Highlights, Interviews

“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

June 12, 2014
Creations, Events & Announcements

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

May 20, 2014
Essays, Writing, Writing Highlights

“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

May 15, 2014
Events & Announcements

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!)