Red Door Poetry
Monday, April 8, 2024, 5:30 PM
Reed Mattison is a photographer and writer from Bowling Green, Kentucky. He earned his bachelor’s degree in photojournalism from Western Kentucky University. Reed grew up in southern Kentucky spending his childhood outdoors on family farms, spring creeks, and the karst hills that would come to influence his visual aesthetic and voice. His semi-rural upbringing and education in the immigrant resettlement site of Bowling Green provided a racially and culturally diverse community that was formative to his photographic philosophy and class consciousness. His literary influences are Kentucky writers Wendell Berry and bell hooks.