Hampshire College

Sandra Matthews, associate professor of film and photography, is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A.) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (M.F.A.). Her photographic work is represented in collections including the Smith College Art Museum; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the Block Museum of Art, Chicago; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Women In Photography International Archive at Yale University. Matthews is co-author, with Laura Wexler, of Pregnant Pictures (Routledge, 2000), a cultural history of photographs of pregnant women in the U.S. In 2010 she founded, and currently edits, the Trans-Asia Photography Review (tapreview.org), an online scholarly journal published by Hampshire College and devoted to the discussion of historical and contemporary photography from East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Her courses cover topics in the history of photography, with an emphasis on social issues and work from non-Western countries.

Affiliations
Film, Photography, and Video
School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies

Recent Courses
HACU-0263: Photography From Asia (Fall 2013)
HACU-0263: Photography in Asia (Spring 2012)
Photography and Remembrance (Fall 2010)
Photography and the East (Spring 2010)