Matthew Finn's guest appearances

Matthew Finn

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Paul Graham

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Alys Tomlinson

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Mark Neville

Jenny Lewis

Annie Collinge

Brian Griffin

Laura Pannack

Éanna de Fréine

Daniel Regan

Hannah Starkey

Matt Stuart

Kalpesh Lathigra

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Matthew Finn has a Degree in Photography from Derby University and an MA in Photographic Studies from Westminster University. He is best known for his long term projects, undetaken over a period of nearly 30 years, focussing both on his mother, Jean, and his uncle, Jean’s brother, Des. A book of the former project entitled Mother was published by Dewi Lewis in 2017 and the work has been exhibited at various major galleries including Jerwood Space, London, the Impressions Gallery Bradford and The Open Eye gallery Liverpool. The project won him the Jerwood/ Photoworks Awards in 2015. Matthews latest book, due to be published by Stanley Barker later this year, is entitled School of Art and features portraits of his students taken while he was a teacher during the mid to late 90’s. In episode 098, Matthew discusses, among other things:  Discovering the astonishing truth about his father on the eve of his funeral How his mum and uncle became his first subjects Love and guilt His School of Art work and why it wouldn’t be possible now  Referenced:  John Blakemore Nicholas Nixon’s The Brown Sisters Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Sally Mann’s Immediate Family Paul Graham Bill Brandt Daniel Meadows Alec Soth Elinor Carucci  Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter “I must be the only person who’s never ever undertaken a commercial job and I’ve been making photographs for over 30 years!”

Matthew Finn has a Degree in Photography from Derby University and an MA in Photographic Studies from Westminster University. He is best known for his long term projects, undetaken over a period of nearly 30 years, focussing both on his mother, Jean, and his uncle, Jean’s brother, Des. A book of the former project entitled <a href="https://vimeo.com/226153864" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mother</a> was published by Dewi Lewis in 2017 and the work has been exhibited at various major galleries including Jerwood Space, London, the Impressions Gallery Bradford and The Open Eye gallery Liverpool. The project won him the Jerwood/ Photoworks Awards in 2015. Matthews latest book, due to be published by Stanley Barker later this year, is entitled <a href="http://www.mattfinn.com/g-29-student-portraits.html?p=3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">School of Art</a> and features portraits of his students taken while he was a teacher during the mid to late 90’s. In episode 098, Matthew discusses, among other things: <ul> <li>Discovering the astonishing truth about his father on the eve of his funeral</li> <li>How his mum and uncle became his first subjects</li> <li>Love and guilt</li> <li>His <a href="http://www.mattfinn.com/g-29-student-portraits.html?p=3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">School of Art</a> work and why it wouldn’t be possible now</li> </ul> Referenced: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.johnblakemore.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Blakemore</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/nov/19/nicholas-nixon-40-years-brown-sisters-portraits-moma" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nicholas Nixon’s The Brown Sisters</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Sexual_Dependency" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_Family_%28book%29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sally Mann’s Immediate Family</a></li> <li>P<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_%28photographer%29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">aul Graham</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Brandt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bill Brandt</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Meadows" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Daniel Meadows</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Meadows" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alec Soth</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Carucci" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elinor Carucci</a></li> </ul> <a href="http://www.mattfinn.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012272977046" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/matthewpaulfinn/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/InfoMfinn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> “I must be the only person who’s never ever undertaken a commercial job and I’ve been making photographs for over 30 years!”

098 - Matthew Finn

Alan Raw

HIP Festival 2017 "We were ready to do a launch for an exhibition but we decided to do it on a Tuesday night because it is the 80th birthday of Matthew Finn’s mother and she doesn’t know.""It’s a project he started right at the beginning of his photography studies and it’s taken him 30 years to continue to use the same format of this 35mm file camera to take photos of his mother over this period of time, keeping the project, keeping the similarity there so you notice the differences in it" - Alan Raw

HIP Festival 2017 "We were ready to do a launch for an exhibition but we decided to do it on a Tuesday night because it is the 80th birthday of Matthew Finn’s mother and she doesn’t know." "It’s a project he started right at the beginning of his photography studies and it’s taken him 30 years to continue to use the same format of this 35mm file camera to take photos of his mother over this period of time, keeping the project, keeping the similarity there so you notice the differences in it" - Alan Raw

Episode 7 - Interview Rewind 2017: Background to Mother by Matthew Finn with Alan Raw @ HIP Festival