Matt Borkowski is a Brooklyn, NY based photographer focused on minimalism and environmental portraiture. Matt is currently pursuing printed publication, exhibition, and commissioned opportunities. His extensive artistic background includes work in graphic and web design, fashion, and literature.

An element that I try to incorporate into my work is minimalism. I don’t necessarily mean that I’m going out on a limb and creating a Mark Rothko every time I shoot, but it’s in the back of my mind. The series I chose to exhibit in this blog post featured some of my favorite minimalist shots from my library, so please allow me to elaborate on my process a bit.

Being a photographer for about two years now, I’ve noticed a stark change in style from my early work to the present. I think that as a young photographer, I was so enamored with the idea of “bokehing” every shot and shooting wide-open that I missed out on a lot of the other cool things in the process. The classic Leica glow ran its course on my work, but as I became ever more acquainted with my tank of an M8.2, the more I decided to push myself and the camera for more. I honestly felt like a whole new world has opened up to me. Mundane subjects aren’t boring to me anymore, and the more that I become familiar with minimalist art the more I feel like I can incorporate elements of it into my work. Lately, I’ve become obsessed with clean lines, shapes, and other oddities, and the photos in this series encompass all of these different trains of thought into one representative work of my take on minimalism.

-Matt Borkowski

To learn more about Matt and his work, please visit the following website: www.mattborkowski.com.