The Camera Club of New York Lecture Series presents in association with the School of Visual Arts:
MATTHEW MONTEITH
DATE: Thursday, September 20th
TIME: 7pm
LOCATION: School of Visual Arts Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd St. (2nd/3rd Aves.)
ADMISSION: Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff. General admission $10, $5 for other students with ID
Matthew Monteith is an emerging photographer whose pictures call our attention to the myriad situations of everyday life. He creates images which are described as allegories to human experience and which contemplate our dreams, fears, and values.
For his lecture Monteith will present his project, Czech Eden, which uses the Czech Republic as a backdrop for his explorations. He gathered the pictures for this project in travels throughout the former Communist country in 2001-2003.
Monteith will also present work from other ongoing projects. An informal book signing will follow the lecture. Copies of Czech Eden will be available for purchase.
Matthew Monteith was born in Michigan in 1974. He studied photography at the International Center for Photography and received and MFA from Yale University in 2004. In 2001 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work in the Czech Republic where he lived from 2001-2003. Czech Eden, comprised of work he made there was published by Aperture earlier this year. He was named one of PDNs 30: Our Choice of Photographers to Watch in 2001 and was included in the Art+Commerce 2004 Festival of Emerging Photgraphers. Currently based in New York City, Monteith’s photographs have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Paris, Arles, Cherbourg, and Kyoto, as well as group exhibitions in New York City, Miami, and Rennes. He is represented commercially by Bernstein & Andriulli.