Born Devon, UK, in 1979. Lives and works in London. Matthew-Robert Hughes’s artistic practice is fundamentally concerned with the self as subject matter for the camera, and acts as a demonstration of the role of photographic technology in individual self-representation. Throughout his working practice, Hughes has continued to use ‘time’ as a tool to explore different modes of the self within its own representation. His current work explores the history and the embalming nature of photography and its subject.

"This-Has-Them (2008) is a project that is focused on the photograph itself as an art object, its time-based properties, and its effect upon the subject. Most importantly, This-Has-Them visualises the embalming nature of photography. I believe that this creates a shift in power for the discussion of representations of the self within the photographic portrait as an art object over that of an object of social exchange. I have created one-off and unique hand made c-type prints. These prints have been produced through spending extended periods of time in the dark room, during which I used traditional and experimental printing processes to produce these individual singular objects. I believe that this mode of production establishes the print as an art object, and gives this object full control of the subject within." (Matthew Robert Hughes)