MATT WEBER

Matt Weber (1958) was born in NYC and studied oil painting with Nicolai Abracheff who was one of Picasso's contemporaries and a noted cubist. 

Weber attended Music & Art high school but dropped out to pursue "art" on New York's subways. He is completely self-taught in photography, although he did reference all three of the books written by Ansel Adams (The Print, The Negative and The Camera). He started taking photos of the NYC streets while driving a Yellow cab back in 1984. The things he had been seeing late at night were so intense, that he always found himself saying "I've got to buy a camera!"

A few years later instead of considering himself a cabdriver with a camera, he knew he was a photographer with a taxi.

Weber’s monograph, The Urban Prisoner was published by Sanctuary Books in 2004. Matt Weber’s work has been published in Popular Photography, Photographica, Hamburger Eyes and many others. His solo exhibitions include 4/2004 at the now defunct jan van der donk gallery which was in Chelsea, New York and at The Peninsula Arts Center (Newport News) in 2005. 

Harper Levine of East Hampton New York has represented Weber’s work since 2007.

The 82 minute documentary “More than the Rainbow” came out in 2012 and covered much of his life story, and had interviews with Ralph Gibson among several other prominent artists.

“Street Trip Life in NYC” was published in 2019 by Carpet Bombing Culture.

Matt Weber’s prints are in the collection of The Museum of the City of New York, Todd Oldham, Harper Levine and Richard Prince.