// For The Next Realm //

“In For The Next Realm, I focus on the absurdities and contradictions built into the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest as a result of extractive capitalism. This project is born out of witnessing the accelerating environmental destruction of my home.

A combination of writings and photographs, For The Next Realm draws from documentary photography, speculative fiction, personal essays, and Marxist analysis. I'm attempting to machete-cut a pathway through America’s cavernous epistemological crisis as it manifests in the forest. What is a forest? Who should make decisions about how humans interact with it? What needs to change? But more than an attempt at some sort of prescriptive project, I am making these pictures as an excuse to go deep into the forest so that I can listen to what it has to say.”

Will Matsuda’s work as a writer and photographer focuses on the intersections of race, capitalism, and the environment. He is currently a student in the Image Text MFA program at Ithaca College. He is based in Portland, Oregon.

You can see more of Will’s work through his site: willmatsuda.com

And on instagram: @willfujiomatsuda