Matthew Anderson

How to Fight Loneliness

My candid observances of New Yorkers and the scenes they leave behind, I feel, resonate with me so dearly, being a wallflower most of my younger years of life. Now i've flung off that wall, and smack onto every avenue and intersection of the city. I draw myself to singled individuals and their quiet remnants, lonely in space. Maybe my subconscious attempts to pull them out of the context of their surroundings, separating whatever it is about them from the world. Inspired by my own trials of love and loss, How to Fight Loneliness reads the same story we all know too well: remnants of heartbreak, loneliness, unforgiving love, and, above all, truth.

Photographer

Matthew Anderson

I've been a hobbyist street photographer since January, 2016. I try to look past the obvious various patterns of the cloth that makes up New York City. What I search for, more, is the underlying thread that links us all as humans together - breathing the same air, walking the same sidewalks, feeling the same cold or heat of the day. The gesture of a hand, the half-second of an offhand gaze, or even a hidden moment of affection - as human beings, we all give and get moments like these, every hour of every day.

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