Matt Eich

Untitled, Austin, Texas, 2026. From ongoing work I have been making during sabbatical.

Sarah and Chris, Richmond, Virginia, May 11, 2025.

Untitled, Texas. 2026. From the ongoing work I have been producing during sabbatical.

Caro Claire Burke (@caroclaireburke ) for The New York Times. Thanks to @christyyyyk for thinking of me for the first commission I’ve done in 2026.

Today I drove home from NYC after several days of crashing with friends Steven Turville and @kendalkulley . On Tuesday I visited @lti_lightside for the first time to drop off a batch of film in person, after sending film to them for the past ten years. I was also able to see @corcphoto alumni @chloe.sophia at her role at @penumbrafoundation and swing by @dashwood_books , mostly to gawk at books that I can’t afford. Sending thanks (and best of luck!) to @jdcfineart who has my work on view at @aipadphoto this week. Stop by and see her at Booth D11 - there are prints on the wall + books and a portfolio of prints. Also, a big congratulations to my @corcoran_gw / @corcstudioarts colleagues and @corcphoto students on their work at the NEXT Festival, which has its big opening tonight. I was able to scoot through and give it a peek before the event. Here are few film sketches that came back from the lab today, drawn from a particularly chaotic stretch on the road. 9 months of sabbatical down, less than 3 to go.

Hi friends - I am pleased to announce that I will have a few photographs on view at the upcoming AIPAD Photography Show (@aipadphoto ) in the @jdcfineart booth (D11) from April 22nd to 26th at The Park Avenue Armory in NYC. Here is a sneak peak of a few of the images I will have on view, along with other artists on the jdc Fine Art roster. Stop by the booth and we’ll have some exciting books, prints and objects to view. Hope to see you there!

It has been nearly a decade since The Invisible Yoke, Volume I: Carry Me Ohio was published by @sturmanddrangbooks in 2016. The first photograph here (Duct Tape, Chauncey, Ohio, 2006), was made twenty years ago. Time has a way of racing forward. The Invisible Yoke series concluded in 2024 with Volume IV: We, the Free. In 2025 we released a limited edition slipcase housing first edition copies of all four books. Limited copies remaining via @littleoakpress .

Hi y’all! Happy belated New Years! Don’t mistake our social media silence with a lack of busyness! We’re been working diligently on multiple things, both silly and serious. For starters, here’s a silly first draft of pictures @matteich made in the Northeast in November. He’ll be making two more road trips in early 2026, and probably making more of these little drafts along the way while he tries to figure things out. On a more serious note, we have two volumes of Pictures and Poems on deck and due out soon. Pictures and Poems No. 3: After the News by Ash Adams (@ashadamsphoto ) will be followed by Pictures and Poems No. 4: Way to Dust by Ocean Vuong (@ocean_vuong ). We are really excited for these and other forthcoming collaborations, so keep an eye here for announcements. Sign up for the newsletter in the bio for preorder information and future updates! *Images shown from forthcoming Pictures and Poems volumes are from drafts and subject to change before publication.

A short video trailer for The Invisible Yoke slipcase, which was released in 2025. A rayon-covered foil-stamped limited-edition custom slipcase handmade by Eliot Dudik Studios in Richmond, Virginia is a container for four monographs released between 2016-2024 by photographer Matt Eich and Swiss atelier, Sturm & Drang. This collector’s item features first editions of the following volumes: The Invisible Yoke, Volume I: Carry Me Ohio (Sturm & Drang, 2016) The Invisible Yoke, Volume II: Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town (Sturm & Drang, 2018) The Invisible Yoke, Volume III: The Seven Cities (Sturm & Drang, 2020) The Invisible Yoke, Volume IV: We, the Free (Sturm & Drang, 2024) The box sets include four A5-sized work prints (one from each volume) signed and stamped en verso. 27 box sets are still available for purchase with A5 work prints. 5 are available with a limited-edition 9.3x14” Archival Pigment Print. 4 are available with a limited-edition 16x24” Archival Pigment Print. Inquire directly or via @jdcfineart . Published by @sturmanddrangbooks , in collaboration with @littleoakpress Documentary video by @matteich Product video by @rossgerhold Editing by @rossgerhold Assisted by @barrettcreynolds Music by @tylerstrickland Copies can be found in the collections of: Candela Books & Gallery, Richmond, VA Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Ohio University, Athens, OH University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VW William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA Limited copies remain.

Hello everyone, this is Matt Eich @matteich taking over @fotografiska this week. I’m a photographic essayist based in Charlottesville, Virginia working on long-form projects related to memory, family, community, and the American condition. For my final post, I am highlighting work from Bird Song Over Black Water, an ongoing series since 2014. Bird Song is a long-form photographic essay set in my home state of Virginia during a turbulent and uncertain period in American history. The title is drawn from a poem by Charles Wright, called “Meditation on Song and Structure.” I carry sections of this poem in my mind as I make images for this series, a meditation on the meandering meaning I derive from the poem at large, and particularly the closing lines: “Help me to lie low and leave out, Remind me that vision is singular, that excess Is regress, that more than enough is too much, that compression is all” Working with medium and large-format black & white film forces me to move slowly and with intentionality. Through restraint of my visual language and compression by careful selection and sequence, I am trusting in the images to guide me towards a clear vision. In making this work, I wish to engage with the world with tenderness, visually whispering a song drawn from this beautiful and broken place I call home. /Matt Eich (@matteich ) #FotografiskaFeatures

Hello everyone, this is Matt Eich @matteich taking over @fotografiska this week. I’m a photographic essayist based in Charlottesville, Virginia working on long-form projects related to memory, family, community, and the American condition. ‘Say Hello to Everybody, OK?’ is a photographic essay that condenses the chaos of contemporary America into a controlled context, as both historical document and artistic statement of personal concern. The images consider the years leading up to and during Donald Trump’s first term in office. My work is tangled in the threads between memory, family, community, and the American condition. Photography draws me back for its ability to counteract our personal and national amnesia. This amnesia allows us to continue to inflict great damage upon ourselves and one another. The making of these photographs was propelled by a sense of urgency, the feeling that America is hurtling towards disaster. Systemic racism, a growing socioeconomic divide and political polarization continue to rend my country at the seams. I work with the belief that photographs are capable of expanding our capacity for empathy. /Matt Eich (@matteich ) #Fotografiska

Hello everyone, this is Matt Eich @matteich taking over @fotografiska this week. I’m a photographic essayist based in Charlottesville, Virginia working on long-form projects related to memory, family, community, and the American condition. For my next post, I am sharing images from We, the Free (Sturm & Drang, 2024), the final book in THE INVISIBLE YOKE. Rather than follow it’s prior volume’s formula of depicting a regional microcosm, We, the Free features images from the United States as a whole, chronicling contemporary American society entering a point of no return in increasingly dire sociopolitical conditions. Through the course of making these photographs, my relationship to America and the medium of photography has grown heavier. What was once a creeping feeling, a gnawing worry, has now been made fully visible. My country is broken, and I fear it may be beyond repair. If you still believe the myth, you aren’t paying attention. /Matt Eich (@matteich ) #FotografiskaFeatures