Matthew Mahon

Commercial Photographer Represented by REDUX/Pictures NYC Matthew Mahon likes taking pictures, he has been doing so professionally since 1999. He hails from Oakhurst, New Jersey and is now based in Austin, Texas. His clients include AMD, AT&T, RackSpace, Reliant Electric, Southwest Airlines, T-Mobile, ESPN, FORBES, Men's Journal, New York Times Magazine, People, Texas Monthly, Vanity Fair, WIRED-UK. He has been awarded Gold Addy Photography 2006, Silver Addy Promotion 2006, and chosen for Communication Arts Interactive Annual 2006, Lürzer's Archive Magazine 2008. Matthew was also a 2011, 2012, 2014 Phoot Camp attendee Matthew's personal project, UNDER / AUSTIN: Took an honest look at women using the internet to work independently in the sex industry in Austin, Texas. He photographed 72 women over an 18 month period during 2012-2013. The images were curated by Misty Keasler and Brian Gibb and debuted at The Public Trust Gallery in Dallas, Texas April-June 2014. The most intriguing and fascinating aspect of this body of work is the level of intimacy that Matthew has with his subjects, a residual affection that lingers from his first sexual experience, and that the women were given no direction. They were photographed doing what they wanted to do, projecting themselves as they would like to be seen. The result is a series of striking images that invoke humor, camp, irony, and sorrow. Matthew's other interests include remodeling homes, salvage shops, researching World War II, bicycle racing, and admiring his dog Buddy and his Pygmy Goat named Cheese. But his favorite activity is entertaining friends and family at Old Stick Ranch, his home in Leander, Texas. He has been called “aloof”, and separately, “genius” but Ross Perot put it best when he said to Matthew “I have many important people waiting on me young man, so let's make this snappy.”

BFA High Honors graduate, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Minored in Art History and English. Awarded Most Creative Photographer by the Daily Targum 1990, 1991