About

Matt Kaelin is a photographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. He holds a BA in Psychology from Swarthmore College and an MFA in Photography and Video from Hunter College.

His work centers on long-term, immersive documentary projects that examine intimacy, absence, and the quiet structures of everyday life. Often working within contained or insular communities, Kaelin’s photographs attend to domestic spaces, lived landscapes, and the traces people leave behind, registering time not through events but through accumulation, repetition, and change.

His projects have taken him to Kamchatka, Russia; a Benedictine monastery in Newark, New Jersey; a classroom of autistic children in New York City; and the only golf course in Haiti. From 2016 to 2023, he lived year-round on a small New England island, producing Inventory of the Impermanent, a seven-year photographic and video archive of island life that will be published as a book and exhibited in 2026.

Kaelin is available for editorial and commercial commissions.

mattkaelin@gmail.com