Matthew Avignone is a Korean-American photographer born in 1987
. In 2011, he obtained his B.A. in photography from Columbia College, Chicago. He has been exhibited at the Aperture Foundation (NYC), Pingyao Photography Festival (China), Camden Image Gallery (London) and the SangMyung University (Seoul). His first artist book,
An Unfinished Body, 2011 is part of the George Eastman House and the International Center for Photography collections. In October 2014, after working for five years on documenting his own family, he released his self-published artist book,
Stranger Than Family. The story of this project, along with his photographs, have been featured in the New York Times Lens Blog. His work has also been published in The Fader, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wire (UK), and Slanted (Germany).
He is currently living and working as a freelance photographer in Paris, France. CONTACT FOR COMMISSIONS OR COLLABORATIONS