Recent Press: "Carry Me Ohio" by Matt Eich

October 28, 2016 jennifer

Beyond the boundaries of our San Diego venue, the work is the subject of major editorial attention, including from CNN, The New Yorker, PDN, and Photograph Magazine.

Excerpt from PDN

In muddy yards and dark bars, at kitchen tables and in trailers, Eich’s subjects smoke and talk, nap and drink, acting out a rich life with limited resources. An odd assortment of animals appear throughout—a zebra in a snowy backyard, ferrets at bath time, a troupe of all-white cats. Like his images of pristine woods and green grass, these connect Eich’s subjects to the cyles of the land. But nature and domestic life pause at the center of the book, in a full page spread showing the grey pit of a strip mine being worked by heavy machines. Writes Eich in the book, “Mining corporations stripped Appalachia of its resources from the 1820s to the 1960s. After taking all that they could, the corporations departed, leaving former boomtowns with little but their cultural identity.” His images record the results of that era, as residents “attempt to recover in the aftermath of extractive industry,” struggling through poverty to raise the next generation with the same strong, stubborn connection to this land. The book, he writes, “is my love song to Ohio.”

Picturing Justice with work by Matt Eich at Atlanta Legal Aid Society

October 1, 2016 jennifer

Congratulations to Matt Eich who is included in Picturing Justice a photography exhibition presented by the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc., curated by Mary Stanley & Louise Shaw held in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Learn more about this exhibition

Now in Production at Sturm & Drang : Carry Me Ohio

September 13, 2016 jennifer

Carry Me Ohio (monograph) | Publisher: Sturm & Drang | Run: 600 copies — *Carry Me Ohio* (monograph) | Publisher: Sturm & Drang | Run: 600 copies

The first volume of The Invisible Yoke, Carry Me Ohio, by Matt Eich hit the presses of the Swiss publisher, Sturm & Drang this September (2016). Carry Me Ohio is the first of three small-run volumes the notable publisher and emerging photographer have committed to producing together. In the words of Sturm & Drang :

Matt's eight year investigation into family, poverty and the ravaged beauty of the Ohio hinterlands will be published . . . just in time for an election that talks much about the people left behind without offering much in terms of a strategy how to help them. Eich's honest look gives those people a face and tells the story from their vantage point.

Copies of the book will be available at jdc Fine Art, from Sturm & Drang, and with select fine booksellers beginning this October.

Now Representing Matt Eich

April 20, 2016 jennifer

jdc Fine Art is thrilled to announce we are now representing the work of the Virginia-based photographer Matt Eich. We have followed the work of this young artist for more than five years and remain impressed with its staying-power.

Eich photographs the psychology of place; his subject is the American Condition. The Artist is already a well-established photojournalist with a strong list of editorial clients- National Geographic, the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and TIME among them. Eich is currently pursuing his MFA, and has caught the attention of the Swiss publisher Sturm & Drang. Sturm & Drang have committed to publishing four monographs with the artist; the first, Carry Me Ohio is scheduled to release this fall.