Matthew Smith Photography provides a unique and high quality service
in reportage, portraiture and photojournalism aimed at editorial, PR,
advertising, design, media, event, music industry and individual
markets, backed by nearly 15 years of experience. Matt started his
business from nothing with help from BRAVE enterprise agency and the
BEDF some four years ago out of a longstanding personal committment
to community/documentary photography in order to bring a new business
professionalism to his earlier work documenting "underground culture"
from the inside.
From shooting events like raves, festivals and carnival in Notting Hill
and Mosside from the late eighties onwards...MSP clients now include:
The Face; DJ; The Big Issue; Arena; Mixmag; BBC Radio One; Channel 4;
Daily Mail Ski & Snowboard mag; Itchy Media; Full Cycle Recordings;
Jonathon Cape/Random House; British Journal of Photography; Vibe101;
MTV; Carlton TV; After Dark Media; Emms PR; Darling Department PR;
Coalition Group PR; Strategy PR; The Daily Telegraph; The Guardian;
Polygram plc; Glastonbury Festival; Shambala Festival; WOMAD; Cirque
Bijou; Circomedia; Lost Vagueness and Bristol City Council.
Community project work includes a digital video and projection project
for Knowle West Media Project working with a youth theatre company on
a production of West Side Story; work for Young Bristol helping pupils
at Fairfield School to produce a school magazine called The Burn; and
work alongside inner city youth music performance groups Remix and Studio
Seven documenting their projects and assisting on the production of
the Regional Youth Music Achievement Awards.
As a founder member of the St Paul’s Arts and Culture Group - a voluntary
committee of local creative practitioners set up by Bristol City Council
to come up with ideas to help with their cultural regeneration strategy
for St Paul’s - Matt has been responsible for creating and running the
Open Space showcase event for local talent, now in its fourth year, and
initiated the creation of the St Paul’s Community Calendar, now in it’s
second year. He also contributes regularly to the St Paul’s Unlimited
Community Newsletter. Matt was also recently given a website by Channel
Four to house his early work which was described by the British Journal
of Photography as a unique archive of social history.
Links
http://undergroundengland.originationinsite.com
http://www.graffiti.org/bristol/index.html
http://www.businessmatch.org.uk/624.asp