Matthew Gamber

Matthew Gamber lives and works in Boston. He is a Professor of Photography. In his latest series ‘Countrypolitan‘ he explains: these photographs negotiate a paradox of desiring to appear as folkish and cosmopolitan. Romanticizing both the country and the city, I encounter an intersection of class and culture through objects I own within familiar surroundings. Attempting to glamorize this lifestyle to myself, I become caught in the middle of what I remember to be and what I desire to become. I am left seeing myself as a fool – a result that forbids the possibility of either illusion.