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*COMMERCIAL BREAK* I am selling a selection of 10x8 inch prints from #allthatlifecanafford London street work from my website for £100 (not including postage & packaging) All printed beautifully by @fotovaklab_de_verbeelding on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl Paper and signed individually on the back by me. Link in bio to purchase https://www.mattstuart.com/prints These make excellent gifts!

#reclaimthestreet @thamesandhudson @djdeeprub A collection of favorite spreads from #reclaimthestreet which will be released on the 6th April with a diverse selection of photographers from all around the world. Many of the contributors are relatively under the radar and I really hope this book introduces a new breed of photographer working obsessively everyday to keep the genre alive and kicking! Photographers shown here : @shinnoguchiphotos @mabushaheen @_stuart_paton_ @joshkjack @elizabethbick @dirtyharrrry @kitracahana @rammynarula @niallmcdiarmid @irinaspictures #photobookjousting

@mattu1 #thinklikeastreetphotographer @laurencekingpub A few years ago I was introduced to #LaurenceKingPublishing by @amanda.renshaw and @joel_meyerowitz (thank you both 🙏🏼) Laurence King commissioned writer @gemmapadley and me to put together a teaching/tutorial guide about the thinking and thought process of a “street photographer”. After many walks and talks on the street with brilliant and patient Gemma we chiseled my words and pictures together to make this book, which covers ideas and thoughts on how to stay positive, the best ways to work with the great unknown, being “good” on the street and adopting the right attitude amongst other things. This certainly isn’t a rule book, it is just my ideas about something that I have practiced obsessively and have loved doing for over 25 years and the best ways I’ve found to keep at it. Mentalist and street photographer @derrenbrown wrote a magical introduction and the book has been published in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. It is stuffed with almost a hundred of my photos from London, America, Spain, Singapore and Gibraltar amongst other places. The book will be available from 11th March 2021 and I hope it helps to answer some questions about something that is difficult, but a positive way of life, and certainly something that keeps you physically and mentally fit! Hope you like it 😊 #photobookjousting

🔜 Leçon de #StreetPhotography avec Matt Stuart (@mattu1), photographe emblématique de notre série Leica M. Saurez-vous faire de même lors de sa Masterclass dans les rues de Paris du 29 novembre au 1er décembre ? 👁️‍🗨️ Au programme : une soirée d’accueil, une journée de photowalk afin de mettre en pratique ses conseils en situation réelle, suivi le lendemain d’une matinée complète d’editing pour choisir et retoucher les meilleurs clichés pris la veille. La Masterclass aura lieu en anglais, pour vous inscrire rendez-vous sur notre lien en bio. - 🔜 A lesson in #StreetPhotography with Matt Stuart (@mattu1), emblematic photographer of our Leica M series. Will you be able to do the same during his Masterclass in the streets of Paris from 29 November to 1 December? 👁️‍🗨️ On the programme: a welcome evening, a photowalk to practice in a real-life situation, followed the next day by a morning of editing to choose the best shots taken the day before. The Masterclass will be held in English, to register head to the link in our bio. 📍Leica Store Paris Village Royal, 26 Boissy d’Anglas, 75008 Paris 📷 : Matt Stuart Leica MP #Leica #LeicaCameraFrance #MattStuart #Masterclass #StreetPhotography

So a few months ago I got to have a walk around London with @mattu1 and chat about the reissue of All That Life Can Afford with @bluecoatpress - this was such a blast, if you missed it the full video is on the @framelinesmag YouTube Channel

Dedication. Creative thinking. Honesty. Hear from Matt Stuart, one of the most dedicated street photographers in the industry. “I can’t hide behind lights and technology, I am reliant on a small camera, patience, and lots of optimism.”

@lisabnyc @stanleybarkerbooks Another beautiful book from Stanley Barker who have made a great habit of plucking photographers out of obscurity and showing their wonderful work. Printed at EBS in Italy who seem to be the go to for great black and white printing. “The first time I saw Lisa Barlow’s Holy Land photographs, they were in a scrum on a conference table at a photo retreat in Montana. This was one of those informal portfolio walk throughs that are common at these sorts of gatherings, and it’s rare that I find myself seized by photographs in such a chaotic context. At best, I’m hoping to see a single image that gets my attention long enough to linger for a couple moments to try to grasp what the body of work is up to, or how the photographs work together (or don’t). When I am on my feet and gazing down on a collection of images- as opposed to, say, turning pages in a book or strolling in a gallery-l find myself simultaneously telescoping and pulling back, striving for a satellite view of the work, not so much as a project, but as a world. This was two years ago, I think, and I didn’t spend more than ten minutes with Lisa’s photographs, but they stuck with me, and began to haunt me. I remember going back to my room that night, still thinking about them, and though I didn’t then know anything about the work or the circumstances of its creation, I interrupted my reading at some point and wrote the following sentence about Lisa Barlow and those photographs: “Some photographers just seem to be fished for by indelible moments.” Brad Zellar @bradzellar #photobookjousting

“Le bateau ivre” is structured into five parts like a play, Martin Essl takes us by the hand (or should I say eye!) through Paris and shows us that change for the better or the worse is at hand, whether it is mass civil unrest or the changing of the light on a temporary blue wall. I first saw the “blue wall photographs” taken on Avenue Matignon, Paris 8ème, in 2019 at Paris Photo @esther.woerdehoff gallery was showing them, I was rather taken by the sequence of photographs, which reminded me in parts of the Johan van der Keuken sequence “42nd Street, New York, 1997.” Martins work feels individual and poetic, the book is sequenced and printed beautifully on different stocks of paper, and arrives in its own slip case. The work feels contemporary and unforced. Published by #kehrerverlag I really recommend it. “Le bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat), was photographed in Paris between 2019 and 2023, and refers a poem of the same name by Arthur Rimbaud. Written in 1871 by a 17-year-old Rimbaud, his poem-passport for Paris, in which he uses the image of a boat to represent a man’s journey through life. In a poetic photographic essay structured like a play in five acts in which the images oscillate between realism and abstraction, #MartinEssl redraws the outline of a city in transformation and composes an abstract and contemporary map of Paris.” Checkout Martins insta for book signings including one this week @librairieartazart Book launch this week at Artazart in Paris. Thursday 19 September 2024, from 6 pm ARTAZART 83, quai de valmy Au bord du canal Saint Martin Paris 10ème @kehrerverlag @martin.essl #photobookjousting

My last workshop of 2024 will be held in London on the 7th and 8th December. Excited to finish off where I started. The workshop is open to all levels of photographer, a basic understanding of how to use your camera is important nonetheless! Details and sign up are available on my website (link in bio) Unlike many workshops this is mainly practical and held out on the street with me. https://www.mattstuart.com/workshop/london-december2024

TONIGHT: All That Life Can Afford by Matt Stuart Wednesday, September 11, 2024 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM All That Life Can Afford by Matt Stuart documents the nuances and oddities of London’s busy streets in a series of images taken in the capital between 2002 and 2015. Matt’s photographs explore those rare magical moments when people, objects and locations work perfectly together to create images that explore the tender moments and human life in a busy capital city. Injected with humour, wit and boldness, Matt’s street photography has gained global recognition for its brilliance and unique qualities. The brand-new, third edition of this acclaimed title brings together over 10 years of work. Despite being on its third edition, the book remains timeless. It has been fully redesigned by Tom Booth Woodger, who has increased the size of the new edition, which also features previously unseen images in the updated and refined sequence. @bluecoatpress @mattu1 Please note our basement Gallery has no step free access and 25 steps. Our full access guide is available on our website photobookcafe.co.uk.

‘This is justice per kilo.’ On Wednesday afternoon in a London hotel, Hisam Choucair pointed out with displeasure the lengthy report on the Grenfell disaster, the inferno in a West London tower block that killed 72 residents, including 18 children, on the night of June 14 to 15, 2017. The scale on which the pack of paper was placed by a group of relatives indicates 7.5 kilos. “It contains nothing, which we did not know seven years ago, says the 46-year-old Londoner who lost his mother, sister, brother-in-law and three nieces in the fire. Earlier in the day, retired judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick presented the conclusions of his 1,200-page report. The conflagration was the result of “decades of failure” by the British government and “systematic corporate dishonesty.” According to the investigating judge.