Matthew Swarts

1974

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Matthew Swarts uses computers to question some of the things he makes with cameras. He believes in photography’s ability to touch truth, but less so in our placing of importance on it having some kind of indexical relationship to what’s “real”. He lives and works in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.