Paul Matzner is a Milwaukee native photographer. He switched to digital back in 2008. His series Facing You/ Facing Me, Matzner takes tight-framed portraits in color, where all of his subjects are center frame.
Matzner focuses in on the face, creating up close and personal portraits. The series is a critique of the disconnection of people in today's society.He asks his subjects to actually LOOK at him in order to share a short connection of two humans interacting. The act of looking allows for a utual appreciation and unspoken respect.
Matzner's portraits are very powerful. Eye contact is so rare and uncomfortable nowadays. These portraits force you to look at the persons face, the crinkle around their eyes, a curl of the corners of the mouth--subtle things most of us never see passing a stranger in the street or even with people we see every day.
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