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Matthew Yates was born in Long Beach, California, and lives and works in Tucson, Arizona.
After studying photography at the Kansas City Art Institute and earning a BFA in Photography in 1997, he worked as a freelance photographer and assistant for various private and corporate entities, including Hallmark Cards Inc.
Yates has exhibited his work in Portland, Oregon, Kansas City, Missouri, and Tucson, Arizona. Most recently he was selected for the 2005 Arizona Biennial, guest-curated by Siri Engberg of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Currently, he is launching fotovitamina - a team photography endeavor catering to a clientele with an artistic palate. Editorial and documentary in nature, fotovitamina is based on the photographers' artistic visions.
50/50 is a collection of glimpses of an unnoticed, overlooked reality - things one sees out of the corner of the eye that are often meaningful and haunting on closer inspection.
It unfolds over the course of one year of extensive travel with my companion. Throughout this year we loved and fought, shot each other with toy cameras and posed, at times unknowingly.
Places, things, and people I photograph, are symbols of this relationship - elements that create a visual diary, an emotional travelogue.
50/50 speaks of the duality that naturally exists within all things, and of all the grey areas in between.
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