Matt Eich

I Love You, I'm Leaving: Created during a time of personal domestic unease, I made this work when my parents separated after 33 years of marriage, and my wife, children and I moved to a new city. This series borrows from personal experience and the visual language of the everyday...
I Love You, I'm Leaving: Created during a time of personal domestic unease, I made this work when my parents separated after 33 years of marriage, and my wife, children and I moved to a new city. This series borrows from personal experience and the visual language of the everyday in order to create a fictional account that mirrors my reality. Photographs are reductions, distillations, half-truths and complete fabrications. They can only describe the surface of things, while I am interested in the intangible - memory and emotional resonance. I photograph with the knowledge that our place in this world is tenuous, comprised of little more than memory and story. Memory is fragile; the moments are fleeting and have to be wrestled into a permanent state. If we are at risk of forgetting too much of our world, and ourselves, photography is the antidote
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Comfort & Care, Charlottesville, Virginia. 2016.
Backyard Haircut, Norfolk, Virginia. 2015.
Melissa under sheets, Charlottesville, Virginia. 2016.
Maddie's Back, Charlottesville, Virginia. 2016.
Cartwheel, Staunton, Virginia. 2016.
Wardrobe, Smithfield, Virginia. 2016.
R.I.P. Jack Jr., Charlottesville, Virginia. 2016.
Dissolution, Charlottesville, Virginia. 2015.
Melissa (mascara running), Charlottesville, Virginia. 2016.
Exit through the side door, Cleveland, Ohio. 2016.