Matthew Phillips

Photo by Adam French

Matthew Phillips is a photographer, videography, and geographer. Growing up in Lancaster and moving to the south of England for study, their work has focussed on identity, place, geopolitics, and culture. They recently graduated from the MA Cultural Geography (research) course at Royal Holloway, University of London. Here, they were also the president of the university’s Photography Society between 2017 and 2020, and produced videos for the Department of Geography. As president, they lead the society to win 5 awards from the Students Union and National Society Awards. Previously they have been on the Royal Holloway Geography Society committee.

Matthew’s photography focusses on portraits of people and places which attempts to show a bit more than meets the eye about each subject. Their landscape photography has been exhibited in Lancaster, London, and Paris as part of various exhibitions.