About
Matt Kaelin is a photographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. He holds a BA in Psychology from Swarthmore College and an MFA in Photography and Video from Hunter College.
His work develops through extended encounters with people and places, often over months or years. Moving between portraiture, landscape, interiors, and incidental observations, his photographs are shaped as much by his relationship to a subject as by the subject itself.
His projects have taken him to Kamchatka, Russia; a Benedictine monastery in Newark, New Jersey; a classroom of autistic children in New York City; and the only golf course in Haiti. From 2016 to 2023, he lived year-round on Fishers Island, New York, where he made Inventory of the Impermanent, a seven-year body of photographs and video centered on the island’s year-round community.
mattkaelin@gmail.com