Matthew Arnold
New York, NY, USA
Matthew Arnold is a photographer living in New York City. He graduated from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he studied photography and offset lithography. He also studied photography at The West Surrey College of Art and Design outside London.
Informed by the New Topographics, his newest project entitled Topography Is Fate, creates large-scale photographs of North African Battlefields of World War II. These vast, anonymous, neutral vistas are bestowed a rare sense of quiet, transforming the North African landscape into contemplative spaces—a stark contrast to what was considered a dangerous and alien environment by the soldiers dropped into its vastness. With minimal visual signs pointing to the echoes of war, the viewer is left to contemplate, reflect and inject a level of their own sensibility into the photographs. Unlike other photographs of war, the power and strength of Arnold’s photographs creep up on you slowly, with an enduring impact.
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Artillery emplacement, Wadi Zitoune, Libya
Matthew Arnold
Artillery emplacement, Bunker Z84, Wadi Zitoune Battlefield, Libya