ABOUT

Matthew Carroll is a photographer working in long-term bodies of work.

His photographs are made through repeated return rather than pursuit, attentive to how people inhabit places over time. He is drawn to ordinary streets, rooms, and edges of towns, places often passed through without looking, where small gestures and quiet arrangements accumulate meaning.

Carroll grew up between Latin America, the United Kingdom, and the American West, and later spent years working throughout Southeast China and Western Europe. Moving frequently shaped a way of seeing rooted in proximity rather than belonging, observation rather than explanation. This distance informs his approach: patient, open, and resistant to narrative closure.

He works primarily in portraiture and landscape, allowing people and environments to share the frame without hierarchy. The photographs do not seek to summarize a place, but to remain with it long enough for its character to emerge.

Carroll is currently working on long-term projects in the American Midwest and in Shenzhen.