I am honored and thrilled to share Stuart Pilkington’s ‘The Swap’ today with my good friend Tanit Sakakini! Special thanks to Tanit and Stuart for making this creative exchange possible! Check out our portraits of each other: http://www.theswap.info/msts.html
Delighted to have work in PETTY THIEVES THREE (A one night projection party) sponsored by EMPTY STRETCH + FURTHERMORE: November 8, 2013, 8-11pm @ Petworth Citizen & Reading Room, 829 Upshur St. NW, Washington DC! Many thanks to Jordan Swartz and Empty Stretch for selecting my work!
Very honored to have Beth, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, 2012 highlighted on Michael Sargeant’s excellent UK based fine-art photography website: SHOW.ME.PICTURES!
I am honored to have work in the CCRI Faculty Exhibition on the Knight Campus in Warwick, Rhode Island. The show is up until October 31st, 2013. Please stop by if you are in the area! Special thanks to Ricardo Rivera, for organizing and hanging the show!
Really delighted to discover the discussion about Joerg Colberg’s musings on portraiture (and BETH) continues on APhotoEditor. http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/09/30/what-makes-a-great-portrait-is-your-willingness-to-take-what-you-want/ Special thanks to Rob Haggart for bouncing this out!
The conversation about BETH continues today on Fototazo! Special thanks to Tom Griggs for his interest and generosity and compelling questions about the work. Please take a look! http://www.fototazo.com/2013/10/portfolio-matthew-swarts-beth.html
So delighted to have recently been invited by Stuart Pilkington (UK) to participate in his latest exciting curatorial project, ‘The Swap’!
http://matthewswarts.com/projects/beth
Delighted to have photographs of my mother and grandmother featured in LAM (Light Architect Magazine): The Grandma Issue:
Delighted to be featured on SFMOMA’s curated tumblr: http://sfmoma.tumblr.com/post/42614461028/submission-matthew-swarts-beth-long-beach
Honored to have been selected by Sarah Kennel, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), to be a part of this exciting exhibition at Texas Woman’s University. Love this image of guests in front of Beth, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, 2012! http://www.twu.edu/visual-arts/joyce-elaine-grant.asp http://www.lightleaked.com/2013/02/curator-sarah-kennel.html?spref=fb
Truly delighted that my work inspired Hannah Stephenson enough to post this beautiful poem on The Storialist.
Happy to be on Tumblr Open Arts! http://tumblropenarts.tumblr.com/post/42696993778/matthew-swarts-beth-long-beach-island-new
Delighted to be featured on emptystretch.com and pinned down mercilessly (and quite beautifully) by The Faceless Kid. Sincerest thanks to Jordan Swartz. http://emptystretch.com/2013/02/matthew-swarts/