August 2008

Must listen to:
Iron & Wine “Love Vigilantes”

loosing respect for someone who inspires you so much is such a let down.  you’re on your own.  you’re always on your own.  you always will be.

must listen to:
mumford and sons – “roll away your stone”
andrew bird – “fake palindromes”

Another frame from the kick ass shoot:

“paris will always be paris.  berlin will never be berlin.”

From my photo shoot with my friend and runway model, Lily Charlotte Strand.

Hair and make-up by Chelsie Wiget

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
- from A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

From my photo shoot with songwriter/producer Jesse Owen Astin/Like Clockwork:

by Matthew Taylor Ruggieri

Though I’m incredibly awful at responding to e-mails, I do read everything that I receive. I got this complement in a message yesterday:

“That new photo you took of Josiah with the hat and the cigarette, for some reason I just love it more than any other.  I think when Josiah gets big, that’s going to be one of those iconic rock photos like the famous Annie Leibovitz Rolling Stone cover photo of John and Yoko or the Lynn Goldsmith photo of Patti Smith used on the Easter album cover.”

Anything comparing my photograph to Leibovitz’s cover of John and Yoko completely makes my day.

By the way, the limited prints of that photograph are still available for purchase!  Even though it is a run of 25, I’ll only be selling a couple more and will be saving the rest for future exhibitions.

At some point, a photographer must release some of his artwork… This blog can only go so far.  So for my blog readers… you have first grabs… Here it is:

This photograph was taken on February 21st, 2010.  It marks the first series of limited prints that I have ever signed/numbered and sold.  All of the prints are hand-printed by myself (directly from the medium format negative) and are professionally matted.  The print is 10×10 and the matte is 16×20.

There are only 25 of these printed and Josiah is the owner of 1/25, I am holding onto 2/25,  3 and 4 are sold, but the rest of them are up for sale!  The price will gradually go up as the prints sell and the photograph becomes more “rare.”

Some examples of the limited prints below:

Please contact inquire@mediacollective.tv if you are interested in more information about purchasing a print.

I’m excited to get these out there to share with everyone.

Regards,
Matt

One of my best friends, Isabelle Ahadzadeh, was just informed that she was accepted as a sophomore to Otis College of Art and Design and will be attending this Fall! Such a monumental move for a good friend. Congratulations, Izzy.

I also announced yesterday that I’m releasing my first limited prints for sale. There are only 25 and they are priced accordingly. I’ll be posting more on the blog in a couple of days, but if you’d like to know more, sooner, shoot an e-mail to inquire@mediacollective.tv!