Matt Kraus
I am a photographer and bookmaker. Mainly, I shoot medium- and large-format film because film creates images with a warmth that a digital sensor is incapable of recreating. Alongside film photography, through the use of technology and alternative practices, surrealist imagery is created that plays with one's emotions and memories. An example is using a process known as Trichromatic Photography. Images are shot on Black-and-White film with red, green, and blue filters over each frame. They are then thrown into Photoshop as separate channels, creating a full-color image. Through this process, ghosts of people and things are created. I believe the physicality of film is crucial in our contemporary society, where capitalism makes it difficult for objects to last a long time and be owned by individuals.
My work explores human intervention and interaction in the world. I examine ideas of how manmade spaces convey emotion through abandonment and decoration. Spaces that feel like they’re trapped in time. Looking at these spaces reminds you of your childhood and brings you some comfort. Even if these manmade spaces don’t look appealing, something inside brings you back to a different place. My more recent work explores grief through the loss of my mother and the effects of this loss. This grief shows up in different forms through the spaces that I photograph. No matter what we do as humans, we can never go back to the past. We can only think about the feelings and memories of our past selves.
© Matthew Kraus 2026
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