Welcome… I’m Matt Inwood. I’m a photographer, phone photography teacher, art director and book designer. I also love to write.
I’ve spent most of my working life in and around food publishing and photography for hospitality clients.
A Thousand Fragments is home to all of my cultural interests, so-called because those interests are broad but add up to many different parts. They will include aspects and stories from my working life, but will also be formed of the books that I am reading, the music I am listening to, the art that I love, and the films that I watch. For a good sense of the make-up of those various broad subjects, you could do a lot worse than scan this live index which I’m updating with each new post.
My main monthly newsletter will feature elements of all of the above. On Fridays, I send out my Friday Fragment which is a photographic-come-textual rumination on single subjects as peculiar as the joy of baked beans or the pleasures and consolations of a well-worn bookmark or the repeated wonder of observing the same tree daily. My hope is that each of these newsletters will introduce you to something new or reframe something already known.
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First and foremost, I hope that these newsletters will bring pleasure through both the things that I write about and the way that I write about them. I’d love to receive your thoughts on these posts: it makes such a difference to every writer here to engage with the audience that reads them – do please leave comments when and wherever you are moved to.
If you enjoy literature, podcasts and music then I’ll be sharing my own personal recommendations and recent reading every month.
If you are interested in phone photography, food photography and food writing and publishing then I will share information that will help you to improve your knowledge and skills in these areas. If you are interested to improve your photography, then subscribing here will entitle you to 20% off the cost of any of my online workshops.
My background
I spent the first twenty years of my working life in book publishing, working as a designer and art director for a small independent publisher, focused on creating high-end food and drink books. It gave me the opportunity to work with some of the most talented people working in food and food publishing at the time, from world-renowned chefs such as Tom Kerridge, Jason Atherton, Claire Clark and Philip Howard, to some of the most well-respected and talented food writers around and with global food brands from Marmite to MasterChef.
Since setting up my own company, I have been working predominantly as a food photographer and as a teacher of photography via my phone photography workshops, which I have been running in one form or another since 2017. I have delivered training to restaurant and hotel groups, to PR companies and for businesses as diverse as National Geographic, Time Out and Bord Bia (the national food board of Ireland).
My photography work has been commissioned by a number of national restaurants, hotel groups and food businesses. My first book as photographer (also designer), Tapas Y Copas, was published towards the end of 2021 with the team behind the Bar 44 group of restaurants. My most recent book behind the lens was Biting Biting – a Gujarati-style collection of snacks from the food writer, Urvashi Roe.
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