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October 14, 2015 in Site News

This is my blog. It will be scintillating, riveting, scandalous, and (at times) thought-provoking. But it isn't yet. Yet. Stay tuned!

- Matty

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In November 2016, days before I left Portland to move to Los Angeles, I threw together a session long-time-coming with dancer/choreographer, Shaun Keylock (@shaunkeylock). Shaun and I had been admirers online for years; our paths had crossed in PDX prior to a blossoming friendship, but we’d never gotten a shoot together till then. We hiked out to an abandoned railroad tunnel, and worked on these pictures. They’re an apt and timely #throwback to Shaun, after his well-deserved win of the prestigious Barney Creative Prize for @whitebirddance. Shaun will create a piece for their 2020/2021 Series. And I’m very proud of him! ♥️ • You can also find me on Patreon. @patreon is a platform that allows fans to become monthly subscribers, to support artists in their project and $$$ goals, and to receive a bit of exclusive content in return. Go check out my page at www.patreon.com/mkulischphoto • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
In November 2016, days before I left Portland to move to Los Angeles, I threw together a session long-time-coming with dancer/choreographer, Shaun Keylock (@shaunkeylock). Shaun and I had been admirers online for years; our paths had crossed in PDX prior to a blossoming friendship, but we’d never gotten a shoot together till then. We hiked out to an abandoned railroad tunnel, and worked on these pictures. They’re an apt and timely #throwback to Shaun, after his well-deserved win of the prestigious Barney Creative Prize for @whitebirddance. Shaun will create a piece for their 2020/2021 Series. And I’m very proud of him! ♥️ • You can also find me on Patreon. @patreon is a platform that allows fans to become monthly subscribers, to support artists in their project and $$$ goals, and to receive a bit of exclusive content in return. Go check out my page at www.patreon.com/mkulischphoto • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
In November 2016, days before I left Portland to move to Los Angeles, I threw together a session long-time-coming with dancer/choreographer, Shaun Keylock (@shaunkeylock). Shaun and I had been admirers online for years; our paths had crossed in PDX prior to a blossoming friendship, but we’d never gotten a shoot together till then. We hiked out to an abandoned railroad tunnel, and worked on these pictures. They’re an apt and timely #throwback to Shaun, after his well-deserved win of the prestigious Barney Creative Prize for @whitebirddance. Shaun will create a piece for their 2020/2021 Series. And I’m very proud of him! ♥️ • You can also find me on Patreon. @patreon is a platform that allows fans to become monthly subscribers, to support artists in their project and $$$ goals, and to receive a bit of exclusive content in return. Go check out my page at www.patreon.com/mkulischphoto • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
Something different today. Last month, I had the opportunity to shoot one of my @patreon subscribers, Eri Deos (@deusbraw). This was a unique, odd, reflective, and super-fun opportunity! We trekked out to Santa Monica and found a likely spot on the beach—Eri is a Canadian, and used to chillier weather in March—and we made ourselves at home for pictures and conversation. Eri has some modeling experience, too. Though I’ll admit that I never figured that a Patreon subscriber would wanna sit for me, outside the role or viewer and inside the role of model. Pretty pleasantly surprising! If Eri himself doesn’t strike you as my usual type of model, look at his eyes. • Like Eri, you can also find me on Patreon. @patreon is a platform that allows fans to become monthly subscribers, to support artists in their project and $$$ goals, and to receive a bit of exclusive content in return. Go check out my page at www.patreon.com/mkulischphoto • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
Something different today. Last month, I had the opportunity to shoot one of my @patreon subscribers, Eri Deos (@deusbraw). This was a unique, odd, reflective, and super-fun opportunity! We trekked out to Santa Monica and found a likely spot on the beach—Eri is a Canadian, and used to chillier weather in March—and we made ourselves at home for pictures and conversation. Eri has some modeling experience, too. Though I’ll admit that I never figured that a Patreon subscriber would wanna sit for me, outside the role or viewer and inside the role of model. Pretty pleasantly surprising! If Eri himself doesn’t strike you as my usual type of model, look at his eyes. • Like Eri, you can also find me on Patreon. @patreon is a platform that allows fans to become monthly subscribers, to support artists in their project and $$$ goals, and to receive a bit of exclusive content in return. Go check out my page at www.patreon.com/mkulischphoto • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
Something different today. Last month, I had the opportunity to shoot one of my @patreon subscribers, Eri Deos (@deusbraw). This was a unique, odd, reflective, and super-fun opportunity! We trekked out to Santa Monica and found a likely spot on the beach—Eri is a Canadian, and used to chillier weather in March—and we made ourselves at home for pictures and conversation. Eri has some modeling experience, too. Though I’ll admit that I never figured that a Patreon subscriber would wanna sit for me, outside the role or viewer and inside the role of model. Pretty pleasantly surprising! If Eri himself doesn’t strike you as my usual type of model, look at his eyes. • Like Eri, you can also find me on Patreon. @patreon is a platform that allows fans to become monthly subscribers, to support artists in their project and $$$ goals, and to receive a bit of exclusive content in return. Go check out my page at www.patreon.com/mkulischphoto • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
One of the better compliments I’ve gotten on my pictures was that they possess “wonderful focus [and] a simple...elegance. It’s as if [Matt] falls in love with his subjects.” I believe this ability goes back to my early reasons for shooting boys, a way to circumnavigate the religion of my birth and the shame I carried about my queerness. Photography was a way to explore desire as distance, to excise shyness, to upend the traditional rules and visual language imposed on boys and boy’s bodies to prevent any sign of vulnerability. Jarid and I have talked at length about how poems specifically—he’s a writer, remember—manage to encode themselves; you don’t need to insert symbolism, the poem’s smart enough to find these pathways of making meaning on its own. I have discovered, with practice, that this is true of images as well. And as for falling in love with my subjects, I do. But only a little. (3/3) • You can also find me on Patreon. @patreon is a platform that allows fans to become monthly subscribers, to support artists in their project and $$$ goals, and to receive a bit of exclusive content in return. Go check out my page at www.patreon.com/mkulischphoto • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
And then I met Jarid, whose own love for art and poetry and form lit up my imagination. Clever, realistic, prone to silence interrupted by insightful erudition, his intelligence impressed and confused me—occasionally disarming me entirely. It was rare to see his face light up; you had to get him talking about books (luckily something we had in common). He’s beautiful, and shyness and brooding have their own special appeal. Beauty like his deserves serious study; the best muses are muses of the mind. (2/3) • You can also find me on Patreon. @patreon is a platform that allows fans to become monthly subscribers, to support artists in their project and $$$ goals, and to receive a bit of exclusive content in return. Go check out my page at www.patreon.com/mkulischphoto • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
When I first got to LA, uncertainty and wonder dominated my days. Uncertainty over my lack of steady income, my apparent inability to make new friends, all the flakes I encountered when trying to photograph. And wonder for the city’s sheer expanse, its love of art; its crush and release of people, culture, cars. I felt an uncomfortable resonance with dreamers who put their hopes atop the altar of breakout chances—even as I basked in the sun and heat, trying to ignore my dread. My work felt, in the cradle of my doubts, terribly uninspired and untested. (1/3) • You can also find me on Patreon. @patreon is a platform that allows fans to become monthly subscribers, to support artists in their project and $$$ goals, and to receive a bit of exclusive content in return. Go check out my page at www.patreon.com/mkulischphoto • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
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