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Matthew Muise Photography
My Story...
- My website is retrospective in nature. The images presented here span 55 years and I am now 70 years old! When did this happen? I still love being a photographer and 2025 was my most productive year ever. Before I arrive at a photography assignment I take some time to do a short meditation, with my intention to move slowly (I have a tendency to move too fast!) with grace, joy and quiet confidence. This ensures that I bring my very best self to the occasion. I have always loved meeting people and learning about them and being a photographer has created a space in my life to make lasting friendships with "my families." I thank all of my clients who have said "yes" to our sessions and for enriching my life. It has truly been an honor for me!
It's all about the People...
- I have been very blessed in this lifetime with good health, curiosity, 48 years of recovery, and lots of energy. I have also been a nurse for 44 years. I am most grateful to the many people who have loved me and supported my photography over several decades starting with Dad and Uncle Lawrence gave me my first 35mm cameras in 1970. Richard Lundgren at Lynn English High School was my first photography and darkroom teacher, a truly amazing and patient man...with me he had to be! My high school principal Al Tagney gave me a serious upgrade of equipment in 1974. Doc Wentzell taught me about "paying it forward" in 1978 and trusted me with a large sum of money (this is a secret!) for another upgrade when I got sober in 1978. Bob Keaney was my first editor from the Lynn Sunday Post. My childhood friend and photographer Jim Wilson was always an inspiration. Cheri and Danny Joyce trusted me to do my first wedding 51 years ago! Yikes! (I want a do over!) Debbie Feinman rescued me from the film world and thankfully introduced me to digital editing 20 years ago. And my biggest fans...my amazing kid Milo, my "twin" sister Cindy, Mary Winston McCarriston, Skylar, Don Montemorra, Laura Plunkett, Helen and Suzanne Hynes, Lee and Susan Kane, Theresa Thomason, Meghan Leighton, Helen Pace Cogan, Dick Tobin, Clem Schoenebeck, Rage Hezekiah, Rita Heron. And a special thanks to Jane Walton Rowe RN, my inspirational nursing instructor, and Frank Pagnotta, my high school music teacher who saved me from falling into the abyss. They believed in me when I didn't believe in myself, and that has made all the difference.