Category: Art

In this exhibition, Matthew explores aspects of Nature and Machine. By using various processes such as palladium, cyanotype, and silver gelatin,
he matches the feeling of each subject to the image.

“With my photography, I prefer traditional ways of photography printing. Depending on the subject, I’ll use the best suited camera as a brush to capture the scene. Once captured each photograph is hand-printed individually in the darkroom.”

Allentown native Matthew Blum is a visual artist who has exhibited in prestigious galleries around the Lehigh Valley. He got his start in the arts by working on local feature movies. While working in film-making he did
a range of tasks such as editing and director of photography. From film-making, his interest in still photography developed with an eye for storytelling.
His exploration into film began with a modest 35mm
darkroom. Later that darkroom set up grew to large format 4 X 5. Today,his preferred printing processes include palladium,cyanotype,and silver gelatin.