
Get Featured: Matt Gomes
Matt Gomes is not only is not only a passionate photographer, but a good friend too. He came to Japan and blew me away with his passion and energy for photography and life. I have been pushing him to share his work and finally he has agreed. Come and check out Matt’s project about his hometown.
Hi, my name is Matt Gomes and I am a photographer from San Jose, California.
The photos shown here are the first piece of a project in working on about the city I live in. San Jose is in the famed San Francisco Bay Area and it’s actually the largest and most populated city in the Bay but it’s little known and a lot of people around us look down on the city, especially other photographers. One of the things I hear a lot about San Jose from other photographers (especially street photographers) is “San Jose? What do you even shoot out there?” San Jose has a particularly strange layout with a lot of seemingly sparse and desolate areas and a very small but very dense downtown area punctuated with skyscrapers.


This project is all about a sense of paranoia and uneasy sort of discomfort. It’s a combination of things I see personally and things anyone who comes here could be subjected to. I’m trying to explore the perception of my city as a desolate and unfriendly place, and document it in an unpredictable and abstract way.
I shoot film and only film. This is all Kodak Tri-X mostly shot at very high speeds.



I hope you enjoy the photos, this is an ongoing project and I plan to eventually edit the finished product to show as prints and maybe make a print book eventually.





More of my photos can be seen at my Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/totalbummerforever
I also blog my work as well as others at www.totalbummerforever.com
And I have an Instagram account @totalbummer4ever
Come on, share with us what you have and get yourself featured.
Click on this link and send in your project/work: Get Featured. *I am looking for mainly projects, not individual images*
Oh, and click here to see a few of the photographers that have been on the site before https://www.japancamerahunter.com/?s=featured
Please make sure you come and comment, polite and constructive critique is welcome.
Thanks
JCH
Really awesome photographs here! Excellent work Matt and well done to Bellamy for chosing such a talented photographer with an inspirational unique style.
Regards from London,
CS
really nice work. your style is vibing with me.