Shane Mathews Photography

I have always been in the arts, from receiving my first land camera when I was ten years old, to shooting my first wedding at the age of 13, then moving on to bigger and better things. At the age of 15, I was the grand prize winner in an oil painting competition; from there, I furthered my horizon by moving on to ink, pencil, and charcoal. At the a... ge of 16, I finally obtained a professional job in a glamor photography studio; I climbed the ladder for three years. Along the way, I met people and new contacts where I would help out as an assistant in Cinema photography in movies and music videos through the early 90s. Later I moved on to work as a darkroom photographer, where I spent most of my days in a Darkroom Studio for an advertising agency. I have always been in the arts, from receiving my first land camera when I was ten years old, to shooting my first wedding at the age of 13, then moving on to bigger and better things. At the age of 15, I was the grand prize winner in an oil painting competition; from there, I furthered my horizon by moving on to ink, pencil, and charcoal. At the age of 16, I finally obtained a professional job in a glamor photography studio; I climbed the ladder for three years. Along the way, I met people and new contacts where I would help out as an assistant in Cinema photography in movies and music videos through the early 90s. Later I moved on to work as a darkroom photographer, where I spent most of my days in a Darkroom Studio for an advertising agency. With my intriguing curiosity for all arts within the same advertising agency, I found graphic design, a short-lived new love. With the new digital world on the horizon, I moved on to other interests leaving myself slightly empty on the inside. In the late 90s, I found myself looking at personal computer systems with a different set of eyes, and with my curiosity. I wanted to know how it all worked, so I decided to build my first system, and there on, I decided to get back into graphic design, but this time, it was all digital. ...Read More