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Matthew Nighswander

Matthew Nighswander

Planeview Park: Waiting for the Jets

“Everyone agrees, airliners look different in the sky these days, predatory or doomed.” From Ian McEwan’s Saturday Planeview Park is a rather scruffy, little park that lies under the flight path of one of La Guardia Airport’s runways.

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Matthew Nighswander

Matt is a photo editor/photographer living in Brooklyn, N.Y., who also spends a lot of time in his native New Hampshire. He completed an M.F.A at Columbia College Chicago in 2006 and later in the year he was selected for exhibition as a ‘Hotshot’ by the Jen Bekman Gallery in New York City. He was included in Getty Images’ New Photographers 2007, a showcase of emerging talent which traveled internationally. His series 'chicagoland' was exhibited at the Pictura Gallery in 2010 and later that year his series 'Waiting for the Jets' was the Grand Prize Winner in PDN's Photobook NYC. His work has appeared in Adbusters, the British Journal of Photography, New York Times International and Lens Blog, Time's Lightbox and on NBCNews.com. Matt's "Dark Country Road" series was featured in a solo exhibition at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colo., in early 2015.

Matthew Nighswander

Photographic Areas of Focus

Fine Art, Landscapes

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United States of America

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