Matthhew Phipps

Year In review

This year has been a year of growth and learning. I have stayed on the streets, shooting every day and growing my extensive archive that now spans 13 years over 25 countries. I changed my focus from the Center of CDMX to my neighborhood, Santa Maria La Ribera. I am doing a long term project showcasing this incredibly complex and diverse neighborhood in the center of Ciudad de México.

2023 saw the second edition of Every Day Is Babylon published and presented in CDMX, Guanajuato, NYC, Washington DC and my hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. I presented the book at the Centro De La Imagen here in CDMX. The biggest public photography museum in the country. In Manhattan I presented at Village Works on Saint Marks Pl. to a crowd of friends and family with some new faces present. In DC I presented the book at Lost Origins Gallery on the cute little Mount Pleasant strip in NW DC. In Tulsa, I had a presentation at my old employer GITWIT and later in the year at Circle Cinema where I played a selection of my films and did a slide show for EDB.

I am happy to have met everyone that I did and made so many wonderful contacts in my travels and daily life. I appreciate every one of you for being on my team and look forward to what 2024 will bring us all. It is a time for retrospection and to do better next year. We must bring more consciousness to the global scale so that we all may enjoy a peaceful and abundant life. It is time to lay down arms and find ways to peace.

I am now in preparation for my next exhibition which will be Thursday, February 7th in la colonia San Rafael at ZCLUB here in central Mexico City. Invitations to come soon. I am also preparing for a larger show at the Hulett Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma for May 2024. More info coming soon. To inquire about pieces before they go up for expo, please email me to receive the full catalog for either show.

See you in 2024 with full energy and passion to take life to its furthest limit.

- Matthew