Special Edition Photobook Released
Contact: Matthew Phipps
mail@mattphippsfilm.com
www.mattphippsfilm.com
EVERY DAY IS BABYLON FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
12 years of photographs across 16 countries over 5 continents
New York - October 2022
Our ever changing world is full of complex situations and emotions. Tremendous joy and incredible suffering surrounds us. As I walk through the world’s streets, I constantly watch and wait for moments that express the happiness or the complexity of one’s existence... the smile on a face, a gesture of the hand, the slight movements that express elation or tribulation in life. Each day is someone’s best day, but also the worst of another. We go back and forth on the waves of time, experiencing joy, sadness, happiness, strength and weakness, the definition of the human experience. This extreme contrast shapes this body of work.
For ten years before the pandemic, I was never in one city or country for more than three months at a time. I constantly wandered around with a camera, patiently waiting for the unexpected to cross my lens. This book is a culmination of thousands of hours and miles walked through cities and villages around the world. The world shutting down gave me the time and patience to sort through roughly 100,000 photos from more than 20 countries.
Technical Specifications
150 pages
118 photographs
Hardcover
Poem by Written Quincey
Texts by Matthew Phipps
First edition of 100 - signed and numbered
Printed in Mexico City
EVERY DAY IS BABYLON
12 years of photographs across 16 countries over 5 continents
Contact: Matthew Phipps
mail@mattphippsfilm.com
www.mattphippsfilm.com
A Statement From Matthew Phipps
I started traveling when I was 15 years old. My camera has taken me to 20+ countries around the world. A documentarian by nature, my films and photographs have given me permission and a reason to put myself in some beautiful, intense and sometimes crazy situations. I am there, present in the moment in order to capture the image that tells the most profound story.
My desire to comunícate what I see pushes me to go out and work every day, searching for the extraordinary situations that occur in this complex world. I walk or I wait, always ready with my camera, my reflexes waiting for the moment to react. It’s not just all colors and shapes. I want to go deeper. I dive in, ask questions and make friends while pushing myself visually and culturally into new worlds. My explorations have taught me a lot, not only about my subjects, but also about myself as a person..
My work is the product of all of my life experiences.The camera allows me to fully open my eyes, while I continue to develop the way I see and feel the world around me. I am interested in showing the wide range of human emotions we all experience on a daily basis and the conditions we live in. I want to highlight the joy and underline the suffering that goes on around us at all times.
I capture complex scenes, often involving more than one subject, layered across multiple visual planes. I am interested in the interactions and intersections that happen between humans as we experience this world. My work is focused on the truth, not creating illusions or showing a mythical world based on fantasy. I believe there is great beauty in the reality of the world.
Special Edition Photobook Released
Contact: Matthew Phipps
mail@mattphippsfilm.com
www.mattphippsfilm.com
Matthew Phipps Biography
Matthew Phipps (b.1988 - Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a North American photographer, director and documentarian. In 2012, he launched Skaters Atlas, an internet video platform documenting skateboarding, the culture behind it, as well as the history, arts and local culture of ten European, Asian, North, Central and South American countries. The project’s final edition was produced in 2015 in Buenos Aires.
Mr. Phipps has directed and produced 25 short documentaries for four international nonprofit organizations. Their purpose was to increase awareness of health and social issues such as homelessness, maternal and infant mortality, while illustrating the impact of social determinants of health on marginalized populations. Others were to improve early childhood literacy and teach educators how to effectively work with autistic children. Matthew has directed music videos for five international artists.
Since 2011, Matthew has been photographing street scenes in order to understand our societies and cultures at a deeper level. His book “Every Day Is Babylon” was released in 2022 as a testament to his travels and experiences around the world. The book was released for his solo show at the New York Street Photography Collective’s Contact Gallery in Brooklyn.
Mr. Phipps’ photographs have been exhibited in a series of solo and group exhibitions across Germany, Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States. Matthew has curated four group photography exhibits in Costa Rica and the United States. Mr. Phipps’ photos have been published in nine periodicals and magazines across four continents. In 2017, he was commissioned by poet Victoria McArtor to develop a collection of 30 photographs to accompany poems about his hometown, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Matthew Phipps is based in Mexico City and New York City.
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