Author: Matthew Jessie

Matthew Jessie

Matthew Jessie (b.1987) is a photographic artist and educator based in Tempe, Arizona. He received an MFA in studio art from Arizona State University in 2020. Originally from the small Appalachian town of Rogersville, Tennessee, Matthew developed a particularly close relationship to the natural world and to the culture and landscape of the Great Smoky Mountains at an early age. He received a BFA in Studio Art from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee in 2015. Matthew's work has been featured by publications including Oxford American's: Eyes On The South, Ain't-Bad Magazine, The Heavy Collective, Palm* Studios, and others.

http://www.matthewjessie.photography

Place of the Deer

Matthew Jessie

“Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.” Frederick Sommer   In August of 2017 I moved across the United States from the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Tennessee to the Sonoran Desert in Southern Arizona. Eager to explore this new and vastly different landscape, I began photographing intuitively throughout the rugged Mazatzal Mountains […]

Temporal Nature

Matthew Jessie

“Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.” Ralph Waldo Emerson   Temporal Nature is an ongoing series of black and white photographs emphasizing an importance for greater consideration of the natural world in the […]