J. Matt

J. Matt is a documentary photographer and feature-writer from, and based in, Honolulu whose work principally focuses on global warming and its intersections with place, ecology, and social, political, and economic histories. Represented by ZUMA Press, a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the National Press Photographers Association, their focus is on Hawai‘i and California as exemplary of what the nation faces in our new climate epoch.

I’m happy to take on assignment work and continue to pursue personally-driven projects, especially when they get picked up! I meet deadlines and have been told that I’m a pleasure to work with by at least several editors. I’m a more than capable photo editor who loves sequencing images, reasonable prose editor, and writer who looks under rocks for the story.

Willing to travel—experienced backpacker/zero-budget surf traveler; absolutely not a first-class baby. (I enjoy bathing but am able to skip them, thatʻs all I'm saying; on any given day my hair probably needs the salt washed out.) I never complain about extra legroom though!

*A note about the ‘okina (inverted apostrophe indicating a glottal stop, and a consonant in the Hawaiian language) and kahakō (macron indicating accent) use here—there is a clear absence of both in my captioning. Captions are pulled from metadata created to be hosted on the news wire where the Hawaiian language becomes unsearchable using either. I endeavor to use both correctly in any writing which is not carried on the wire.