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Issue Illustrator | Matthew Fertel

Each issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly features an Issue Illustrator, an artist whose work was chosen to pair with and complement the poetry of the quarter.  Issue #63's artist is Matthew Fertel.
Matthew Fertel is a Sacramento-based photographer who has worked in the Photography department at Sierra College since 2004. Before that, he was a fine art auction house catalog photographer in San Francisco for over 10 years.

Matthew's current work focuses on capturing the minutiae he encounters in his daily life. He seeks to expose the hidden beauty in the everyday objects that make up the landscape of our existence. Going to the same locations over days, months and years allows him to capture images under different lighting and weather conditions, and to see objects change over long or short periods of time. There is art hidden everywhere if you learn to see it.

Learn more at his w​ebsite and on Instagram.


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​You can find Matthew Fertel's art on the following pages of UtSQ:

Tresha Faye Haefner
Anthony Thomas Lombardi
Ceridwen Hall
Shannon K. Winston
Theo LeGro
Ali Beheler
Carol Berg
K. Kannan 
Patricia Davis-Muffett
Audrey Hall
Megan Denton Ray
Siobhan Casey
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