If You Still Question Your Photography, You Are Not Alone, So Does Matthew Genitempo (Part 1)
2026-10-01 · 65 min · 19 entities
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THIS IS PART 1 OF A 2 PART CONVERSATION WITH MATTHEW GENITEMPO.
I sat down with photographer Matthew Genitempo , the graphic designer turned photographer and publisher behind the photobooks Jasper , Mother of Dogs and Dogbreath .
In part one we go deep into Jasper , the photobook he made largely in the forests of the Ozarks as his MFA thesis at the University of Hartford: the critique that told him to stay in one place, the Frank Stanford poems that shaped how he saw the landscape, the men who had cut themselves off from society, and how throwing out his shot lists and learning to shoot a slow large format camera fast changed his photography.
If you're a photographer who keeps getting in your own way, your work feels scattered, or your most carefully planned pictures keep coming back flat, Matthew shows what can happen when you stop forcing it, dropping the idea of what your photography should be and trusting it to find its own way.
Other things we discussed:
Why the photographs that interest him most are the ones he doesn't remember taking
Moving from graphic design into photography
What Fugazi taught him about doing things his own way
The 5-minute critique that told him to keep going
The story behind the mysterious animal photograph everyone asks about
Why he sees Jasper as fiction rather than documentary
Matthew's links:
https://www.matthewgenitempo.com/
https://trespasser.co/
https://www.instagram.com/genitempo/
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