Sometimes, when I think there is potential for different formats to say different things about a particular story, I go ahead and shoot them both and see where things fall as the piece moves along. For the Grim Sleeper work, there was a strong thematic reason to shoot Polaroids: the alleged killer catalogued hundreds …
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01.26.2012 by Matt Slaby
Grim Sleeper for TIME Magazine -Part I
It’s admittedly a strange photograph to lead with. It’s empty, it’s bleak, and there is definitely no moment to speak of. But the space itself is a portrait of a place that bears a certain significance to the story it’s hooked to. The pile of rubbish marks the exact spot where Lachrica Jefferson’s body …
01.19.2012 by Luceo Images
From the Archive
From the Archive is a regular column that features one image from our archive and appears every Thursday. LUCEO Images has a thorough group archive (keyword search bar, top right) and it can be at the LUCEO Image Archive.
This week we are featuring an archive image taken while on the road in southern New Mexico …
01.05.2012 by Luceo Images
Buy Your LUCEO CUT, Exhibition January 13
Above is the full 163′ run of the exhibition. Use the red slider to view the exhibition.
GREATER THAN THE SUM
LUCEO Group Exhibition 25 CPW Gallery, New York January 13, 2012 Breaking from tradition, our new exhibition Greater Than The Sum combines a broad curation of each our photographers work into one 163′ run that …
01.04.2012 by Matt Slaby
Few and Far Between: Matt Slaby
GPS could well be the death of adventure. Sure, there’s something to be said for its utility as a homing device for the lost, rushed, and wayward souls, but the fact of the matter is that uncertainty is at the heart of its definition. The thesaurus, impartial to euphemisms that soften meaning, lists ‘hazard’ …
01.02.2012 by Luceo Images
LUCEO’s Best of 2011
It’s really hard to boil down a year of assignments and projects and portraits and personal images down to a small handful. Certain images stand out in our minds because of the memories that accompany them, because of the way the light fell across the scene, because the impact the subject had on our …
12.12.2011 by Luceo Images
Be a Part of the Greater Than The Sum Soundscape
“Din is a soundscape designed to evoke the memories, experiences, and daily sounds of life. Din is a collaborative effort, comprised of field-recordings gathered by LUCEO members, their community and composer Tyler Strickland.”
LUCEO friend and collaborator Tyler Strickland is composing a beautiful soundscape that will be an integral part of our upcoming exhibition at 25CPW in …
We Connect, You Create.
LUCEO is excited to announce our 2012 group exhibition, Greater Than The Sum. We are inviting you, our guest, to collaborate with us by selecting and cutting an original piece of work from one 163-foot run of layered images. A curation of our work has been combined and interconnected to span the entire …
12.01.2011 by Luceo Images
From the Archive
From the Archive is a regular column that features one image from our archive and appears every Thursday. LUCEO Images has a thorough group archive (keyword search bar, top right) and it can be at the LUCEO Image Archive.
This week we are featuring an archive image taken in the wake of the Tucson Shooting by …
11.28.2011 by Matt Slaby
Winter Grass Fire for National Geographic
I was honored to have this picture published in National Geographic’s September edition. The image, printed with a slightly looser crop, appears in the magazine’s Visions of Earth section. The picture has made its rounds in a handful of contests and as an anchor image to The Last Good Kiss, though this is the …