If you read PHOTOSNACK regularly, you may remember that I recently featured the work of British photographer Matt Peers.
His photographs immediately caught my attention. There is a quietness to them that makes me slow down. People, streets, urban spaces, small details — but underneath all of that, there seems to be a deeper curiosity about how people inhabit places, how those places change, and what photography can tell us about our own lives.
So I invited Matt for a conversation.
We talked about his decision to work predominantly with analog photography, approaching strangers on the street with a Rolleiflex, the relationship between people and place, photographing Birmingham and Sicily, working in long-term projects, and his belief that making art is partly our way of trying to understand why we are here.
We also looked closely at five of his photographs and talked about the stories behind them.
I particularly enjoyed this conversation because Matt doesn’t speak about photography simply as making successful individual images. For him, it seems to be an ongoing way of looking, questioning, connecting things, and slowly building a photographic world.
You can watch our full conversation on the FRAMES YouTube channel >>>
Until next time,
Tomasz