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A lyrical yet methodical approach defines Connors' style of photography, which finds resonance with political documentary and classic street photography. Yet his work challenges these categories, pushing back at how we understand representational imagery and frame public space. 

All works courtesy of the artist.

 
 

New York City, 2004, 2004

2004
Pigmented inkjet print
39 x 56 in. (frame)
Ed. of 6
From the Tenuous Republic Series
Courtesy of the artist

Kyoto, 2006, 2007

2007
Pigmented inkjet print
30 x 43 in. (image)
Ed. of 6
From the Tenuous Republic Series
Courtesy of the artist

MAsk in Reverse

2016
Pigmented inkjet print
44 x 33 in. (frame)
Ed. of 6
Courtesy of the artist

 
 
 

From the artist:

"I started making the [Tenuous Republic] pictures in the early 2000s, when the technology of photography was transitioning to digital and I became interested in an increased flexibility of the medium. I started revisiting an early interest in street photography in a more methodical way. I’d stake out locations and photograph in one spot for a duration of time, sometimes hours, collecting glimpses of drama and poetic gestures of people moving through a chosen space. I’d later composite together fragments of negatives from the same location shoot, compressing different moments into a single, credible picture.." 

- Interview by Giada De Agostinis for Paper Journal, May 2017

 
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Matthew Connors is Chair of the Photography Department at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston, MA. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague; and the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York. He has received the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship, the William Hicks Faculty Fellowship from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and the Alice Kimball English Travelling Fellowship from the Yale School of Art.