Matthew Rolston Portraiture

 Hey Teach,


Today I am looking more in depth at Matthew Rolstons work because I really liked the one image he took where the dude has blood on his hand it was super cool looking to me and it got me interested.

I have to say his work is really really technical, and creative too buuuuuut.

I feel like he’s missing something? Like, for my taste at least. You’ve said it many times but, he’s boring. His whole thing is being this super creative eccentric guy so why is every photoshoot the same thing in a different color set man! I’d rather you have 100 shitty photos from experimenting rather than all of them being perfect. I do genuinely think they are all incredibly good photos too, I don’t deny that. But perfection is boring to me, consistency is too. I think that’s something the entire world agrees on, someone who does the same thing over and over, even if it’s just as good as before is just kinda not interesting. I’m going to try and find if he has any more interesting portraiture and my opinions on them. 

Thank god, he has a lot more photos, his site just only wanted to show me his celebrity photographs. I went to search for other photos by him and now I have to agree he has a great breadth of style and interesting photos even solely in his portraiture, however I did sneak a glance at his other works, and it seems outside of portraiture he gets even weirder and cooler, however that is not what this blogs about.

The photos that weirdly seem to be more creative and abstract from Rolston are his B&W ones, which in some ways make sense but in others I feel abstraction is usually colorful, the exact opposite of B&W’s technical and sharp ideals. Maybe it’s challenging those ideals that makes B&W fun to him? However he also seems to have an incredible grasp on using those ideals too. He seems a like a very interesting photographer who just found a style he really liked that brought a lot of money in but has much depth beneath that style. 

Specifically I really like a photo he has of a ladies face being a clock, it really feels inspired by Dali and the exposure, and background, her expression? It’s all incredibly well put together. Probably my favorite of his if I had to pick.

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