Matthew Murray started capturing imagery with a camera at a young age, to the point where his father took notice and purchased Matthew his first Canon SLR at Lechmere’s in New Hampshire for his 15th birthday.

From there Matthew took to the streets shooting everything in his view from travel to sport to lifestyle moments, which led to the next big influence of his photography career path - the support of his high school art teacher.

In Matthew’s junior and senior years of high school, he was given permission to build a darkroom out of the clay closet if he purchased all the chemicals and materials. He slowly taught himself black & white photography; the process of shooting and developing in different formatted films and prints. Upon his departure, Matthew helped turn photography into an art course for all future students at Hopkinton High School.

This led to Matthew majoring in photography and design at James Madison University, where he assisted his progressive professor in developing the first digital photography course during his senior year – which in 1999 was placing your developed slides into an archaic scanning device to edit /develop images in Photoshop 3.3.

Now twenty-plus years post lieu of his bachelor’s degree, Matthew has photographed for brands, agencies, athletes, celebrities, models and media outlets. His experience ranges to the many approaches, techniques and facets of photography. His preferred camera is the Leica SL-2S and varying light applications. Recently, he reconnected with his progressive professor, Corinne Diop, to lecture and mentor the new photography art majors at James Madison University.