A selection of my images in print and at exhibitions worldwide. Includes interviews with me which feature my work.

Cookbook published by the Embassy of Sweden in Belgrade. Recipes by Lars Ekberg, Photography by Matt Lutton, Food Styling by Ekberg and Lutton. Published November 2016. ISBN: 978-86-920167-0-7

(c) Matt Lutton, 2016 On assignment for Mashable.com. Published 2016: http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/what-its-really-like-to-live-and-work-on-an-aircraft-carrier/#cJWv0dqp8kqS

Serbian village of Velika Hoca in central Kosovo. Estimated 700 residents. Celebrating Orthodox Christmas on January 7, 2011. (c) Matt Lutton Part of the projects "Abandon in Place" and "Only Unity"

(2006-2008) Homeless in Seattle is a project begun in collaboration with the charity Jewish Family Service to document how some of their resources were impacting the homeless and low-income communities in Seattle.

New York City. 2005 - 2012.

Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2007 - 2015.

“Only Unity”: Serbia In The Aftermath of Yugoslavia has emerged from six years of living and working in the Balkans; it is my personal response to the confounding atmosphere of the region. My project presents a psychological portrait of Serbs from across the Balkans as they confront a radically changed landscape within physically contracting borders. Serbia is emerging from the hangover of the 1990s, where atrocities were carried out in their name just across newborn borders, and constructive reflection about the consequences of those years is over due. (From Artist's Statement, 2015)

The Savamala neighborhood of the Serbian capital Belgrade On assignment for N by Norwegian Magazine.

For The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/08/chopin-movement-music-to-ears-of-polish-tourism-officials

For The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/ukraines-refugees-find-solace-in-poland-europes-most-homogenous-society

Flooding in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 2014.

These images are the first chapters of a tragic story about the endangered and persecuted Roma population living in Belgrade, Serbia. It begins with the community living under the Gazela Bridge before its destruction and partial relocation on August 31, 2009. The project then follows these residents to their new homes across Serbia, some in better and others in worse conditions than in the original settlement. Gazela was an isolated community of over 200 Roma families living abjectly difficult lives. They made their living from the recycling of metals and refuse, and the landscape around their homes was filled with toxic mounds of rotting waste. Few children attend school and are fed into a cycle of poverty and otherness in Serbian society. This was a ghetto, split on the banks of one of the region's most important rivers and on premium real estate eyed by elites. The local government, with funding from the European community, is working to open the land for reconstruction and development. In return for their displacement, the people living there, depending on their legal status, would either be given a new container to live in, free transport back to their villages or, if they had no papers, an unceremonious trip to the curb and likely a home in another improvised camp. Europe is in the midst of economic resettlement and a resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia. Roma populations are facing persecution and mass resettlement across the continent. Yet in their native lands, conditions are equally perilous. The Serbian relationship with its minorities is of paramount local and European importance, especially as the country approaches official European integration. The story of this Gazela settlement is a premonition of the challenges of minority and Roma rights that Europe faces today. (c) Matt Lutton, 2011

Tourism along the Dalmatian Coast and Croatian Islands. June 2013. Rab Island, Pag Island, Split, Hvar Island and Brac Island. Photographed for Columbus Magazine (NL).

Photos shot backstage at a Dina Johnsen project. Spring 2012. Musician Goran Bregovic in a Belgrade, Serbia Studio. Photos by Matt Lutton.

Norwegian author Kristian Kahrs in Belgrade. November 2012. Photographed for Plot Magazine.

The first round of the Serbian Presidential election took place on May 6, 2012. The results between President Tadic of the DS party and opposition leader of the SNS party Nikolic will lead to a run-off on the Presidency that will take place on May 20, 2012. The parliamentary government has not yet been formed, and will undergo weeks of horse-trading as parties struggle to form ruling coalitions.

Segregation of Roma communities in Eastern Slovakia. March 2013. (c) Matt Lutton for Vice Magazine Original article by Aaron Lake Smith: The New Roma Ghettos: Slovakia’s Ongoing Segregation Nightmare” (http://www.vice.com/read/the-new-roma-ghettos-000519-v20n4)

Following the historic and pressing local concerns about the Jonglei Canal and the Nile River in South Sudan. September 2012. Assignment in South Sudan for Austria's '2012 Magazine', first published November 2012. Text Available. (c) Matt Lutton

Election night in Serbia, May 20, 2012. SNS candidate Tomislav Nikolic was elected the next President of Serbia. A rowdy crowd gathers outside of the Democratic Party (DS) offices in central Belgrade after Tomislav Nikolic was declared the winner of the Serbian Presidential Election. The crowd was shouting anti-Tadic chants, and was comprised of mostly intoxicated young men. (c) Matt Lutton

Rally for SNS Presidential candidate Tomislav Nikolic at Sava Center in Belgrade, Serbia. May 15, 2012. Second round of Presidential Voting.

The Roma community of Belville, located in the New Belgrade area of Belgrade, Serbia, was razed by city government on April 26, 2012. Many of the families were relocated to container communities in various outskirts of Belgrade. (c) Matt Lutton, 2012

Scenes from Kosovo during the first round of National Elections in December 2010. These were the first elections held since Kosovo declared independence in 2008. (c) Matt Lutton, 2010 Unpublished

The village of Trudelj, Serbia during the annual production of Rakija, the traditional Serbian alcohol. In this area it is Sljivovica, made from plums November 2011

The Danube River in Serbia, November 2011 Originally photographed for the Financial Times Magazine

On Monday July 25, 2011 Kosovo special police forces implemented customs regulations on the two northern border-checkpoints between Kosovo and Serbia, launching a crisis in Northern Kosovo. As of August 12, 2011 some Serbian roadblocks near the village of Rudare remain in place to limit movement of Albanian Kosovo Police and KFOR. Local Serbs seek a return to the status-quo before the border closure to ensure their trade links with central Serbia. (c) Matt Lutton, 2011

Divers and tourists at Mostar's famous Old Bridge (Stari Most) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This bridge is the city and region's biggest tourist attraction and there are busses full of tourists coming in from Sarajevo and Dubrovnik, Croatia. For 25euros tourists can train to jump from the bridge themselves, under supervision from the "professional" Mostar divers known as the Mostari.

Matt Lutton's coverage of the aftermath of Ratko Mladic's capture in Lazarevo, Serbia on May 26, 2011. Photographs from Belgrade and Lazarevo, Serbia and Srebrenica and Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. For The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune

Tomislav Nikolic and the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) stage an opposition rally in Belgrade on February 5, 2011. Pionirski Park in front of Parliament and the streets of central Belgrade.

Kultur Shock plays Banja Luka and Belgrade on April 2 and 3, 2011 Shot by Matt Lutton for the International Herald Tribune. Writing available by Drew Adamek

Kosovo, June 2008 From project "Kosovo New Born"

Images from the Srebrenica memorial at the Potocari factory from 2007, a temporary gravesite in the city of Visoko, 2008 and the 2009 14th anniversary memorial event in Potocari. The Srebrenica Genocide occurred in July 2005 near the end of the Bosnian war when an estimated 8000 Bosniak (muslim) men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb paramilitaries, leading to war crimes charges for many of the commanders involved including Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic (still at large), Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadzic and Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic.

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere: Chapter 2 Following the residents of the Gazela Roma communities as they settle in new locations around Serbia. Includes official resettlement camps of container homes in outskirts of Belgrade, a growing slum less than a kilometer from the original settlement and some families who are starting a new life in cities near Belgrade. The forced relocations of Serbian Roma have entered the international debate, between instances of foreign investment in Belgrade requiring certain levels of treatment of minorities and a recent Amnesty International report which condemns the treatment of the Belgrade Roma under these resettlement regimes. For more information: http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/serbia-must-end-forced-evictions-roma-2010-06-10 (c) Matt Lutton 2009-2010 Prepared for Invision Images, June 2010

In the small town of Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, about 40 minutes from the capitol of Sarajevo, a scientific controversy is brewing over the studies and pronouncements of Semir Osmanagic. He claims that several hills in the vicinity of the town are actually man-made Pyramids constructed as early as 12,000BC. While the "official" scientific community is dubious of his findings and archaeological methods a tourist market is booming in town with many converts to Semir's hypotheses. In May 2007 Matt Lutton spent a day with Semir traveling over a number of sites in the Pyramid complex. For further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_pyramid and http://www.piramidasunca.ba/piramida/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&lang=en All images Copyright, Matt Lutton, 2007.

Images to accompany three stories for the New York Times and International Herald Tribune. Runup to Elections, The Business Scene and Human Trafficking. (c) Matt Lutton for the International Herald Tribune, 2009

"After eight years of intense and intrusive international presence in Kosovo, a peace keeping effort to follow a brutal ethnic conflict between Serbians and Kosovar Albanians, the question of a "Final Status" is on the tongues of all in the region. At the crossroads between east and west, Serbia and Kosovo have been divided, conquered and ruled for hundreds of years; and today is no exception. Though the Albanians are waiting patiently for some semblance of independence and autonomy, all but promised by the Americans following the war, their future is ironically solely in the hands of the international elite, and more specifically, the remaining Cold War superpowers Russia and the United States. No matter their feelings, Serbs and Albanians on the ground are at the whim of the winds of highest-level international diplomacy. Where Kosovo might be looked at as a model of success for International Peacekeeping by some, many others on the ground see it for what it is: a stifling bureaucracy forced upon a region rife with problems of its own. Electricity production and water don't meet demand, infrastructure still is undergoing reconstruction and poverty abounds. Kosovo and Serbia are moving rapidly toward a European future, but on cars and rails of another's construction. Photographer Matt Lutton recently spent a month in Kosovo investigating how people are living today, mere years after the war and continually surrounded by ethnic tension and occasional violence. Where UN troops patrol the streets with tanks and heavily armed snipers and troops are normal sights on every street corner in some villages, Lutton discovered people looking eagerly to their future but fully aware of the immense challenges they must overcome first: from the international bureaucracy to neighborhood reprisals and, ultimately, the specter of producing a sustainable economy." Copyright Matt Lutton, 2007. Not Published.

Anniversary of the attacks on America in 2001. "Ground Zero", the World Trade Center site, New York, New York. Images from Sept. 10-11, 2005. Available for editorial licensing.

Portrait series of residents and workers in the Spanish Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York. July and August 2005. Available for editorial use only - This portrait series accompanies a story by Matt Lutton titled Spanish Harlem, also found on this website. (Work in Progress)

Military service for Lt. Madrazo (25 years old) of Edmonds, Washington. Killed September 9, 2008 in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan. Bellevue, WA. September 20, 2008.