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HI, and thanks for stopping by! I'm Matthew David Powell, a 35 year old art director living in Jackson Heights, NYC. Photos MDPNY is a street photography blog I started in 2005, documenting daily life in and around New York City.
Elsewhere on the web:
Facebook: facebook.com/mdpnyphoto
Flickr: flickr.com/mdpny
tumblr: mdpny.com
twitter: @mdpny
A little about me:
I've been fascinated by photography for basically my entire life. As a child my mother always carried a camera in her purse. I was amazed by the its magical ability of stopping time and dispalying it in such vivid color and detail... I fell in love with the story it told. As an adult, I'm still amazed. Photography gives me the opportunity to appreciate and share otherwise overlooked details in the world around me.
Being able to stop a moment and share it almost exactly as you saw it can be an amazingly better way of communicating than with words. My mind has always worked visually, and photography acts sort of like a language. To this point, I usually have some form of camera with me.
I'm orignially from the West, and have called NYC home for just over 10 years.
What interests you visually?
Subject wise, I enjoy urban storytelling; street photography of what it's like to live in a big city. I also love architecture and details of urban growth and decay. I'm really fascinated with the connection between people and their environments, and NYC is an amazing place to observe this.
Why photoblogging?
The power of interactive communities. I'm amazed and inspired daily by people who share their world through images on the Internet. I don't know these people in real life, though I share a connection to their work. I also love that it's interactive, which allows for conversation and commenting; it's really interesting to see how differently people experience the same photograph.
It's the closest thing I've ever come to realizing a childhood fantasy of being able to see the whole world at one time, and in a way I think it shows that everyone in the world has a lot more in common than most mainstream media would have us believe. | 
