Matthew Smith Photography Rave
Brian welsh will be at the plaza cinema in truro with photographer and author matthew smith who also documented the early years of the rave culture and the free party.
Matthew smith photography rave. Along came rave and offered that culture a whole new means of empowerment and thus survival matthew smith. The shots are unusual not only for their sensitive portrayal of the individual partygoers children and scenes that rave culture fostered but for the fact they exist at all. The images were shot by artist and documentary photographer matthew smith aka mattko using a nikkormat 35mm manual camera and a rolleiflex twin lens reflex. Launching the matthew smith archive.
See features of his work as well as an unique store. The first of our preservation programme the result of a 9 month project proudly brings photographer matthew smith s unseen archive of 50 000 iconic photos spanning over 20 years into the public eye with the matthew smith archive. Soundtracked by chicago house lil louis jesse saunders techno joey beltram kevin saunderson and home grown british artists a guy called gerald 808 state british rave culture brought acid house and dance music at large to the. Then of course rave happened photographer matthew smith explained in an interview with good trouble.