Interview on the Wise Fool Podcast
“People really love it when you make the same compromises that they do, because it justifies them.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (The Wise Fool Podcast, 2022)
New publication: ISSP 2019
My latest publication is a whirlwind of photography-related questions produced the frenetic week of ISSP 2019.
Fruits de Mer published on Libération
My series Fruits de Mer has been published together with small quotations excerpted from an interview on the French national press, Libération.
New book Unique available for pre-sale
I’m happy to announce my new book, Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity, featuring work by nearly fifty contemporary photographers.
White Rabbit Fever Available from Bromide Books
White Rabbit Fever is a photobook by artist-researcher Maija Tami, for which I wrote some creative texts. The book is available now from Bromide Books.
No News Is Good News
“Do you want to go to World Press Photo and feel bad about everything?” TheWorld Press Photo exhibit, featuring the greatest hits of misery, is no exception to the rule that no news is good news.
(Riding the Dragon, 2018)
(Riding the Dragon, 2018)
David LaChapelle: An Optimistic Apocalypse
"As an artist you have a choice what you create, and I always wanted to make pictures that would use beauty and touch people and move them and inspire them."
—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)
—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)
Photo Workshop in the French Countryside
Announcing my creative photography workshop in Missé, France this October. Photography, French food and wine in the countryside!
The Overview Effect
"Rather like the fish who doesn’t realise he’s swimming in water, our relationship with our own terrain is easy to not perceive due to its ubiquity."
(GUP Magazine, 2017)
(GUP Magazine, 2017)
Insight on the Role of a Photography Editor
“A well-edited work, much like a well-designed product, doesn’t just look natural – it feels inevitable.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Life Framer)
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Life Framer)