Biography
Matthew decided to become a photographer after being reprimanded for taking photos during a production of As You Like It at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon. So after finishing his course of Shakespearian and Elizabethan History at Oxford University, Matthew enrolled in photography and film studies at the Glasgow School of Art.
He mastered enough of the survival techniques of the Scottish climate and the Glaswegian dialect to finish his BFA and graduate with honors.
With a desperate need for sunshine and a place where people used words like 'dese' and 'dose' instead of 'nae' and 'ken,' Matthew moved back to New Jersey. On a Saturday morning bike trip he stopped at a garage sale where he met a photographer for the NBA. He was hired as a photo assistant and traveled the country for a year. He met Kevin Garnett, Jason Kidd, and Allen Houston. Kerry Kittles fell on him in the sidelines during a game, and he photographed Kirsten Dunst before she became the Queen of France.
He was then hired to work as a partner in a studio in Northampton, MA, where he once interned in college. He learned studio photo and comping techniques photographing subjects ranging from an 8' Harry Potter made of Legos to Top Flite golf clubs to Friendly's Ice Cream sundaes.
In addition to his work in the studio, Matthew regularly shot publicity photos for the local FM rock station, giving him the opportunity to dodge fake blood at a Motley Crue concert, escape being drenched in cheap beer at Ozzfest, and trampling through mud and rain at the Warped Tour.
Documentary filmmaker Anne Makepeace hired him to take still shots during the production of the film titled Rain in a Dry Land; the story of immigrant Somalians adapting to life in America.
Now Matthew shoots wherever his assignments take him. From staged truck wrecks on the NJ turnpike to the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona to winter sunrises over the Oresund Bridge in Denmark.
Matthew's work has been published in various trade, catalog, magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes, and Sports Illustrated.