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We met Matt when he worked with our friend Jimbo at the record store downtown. He was different than most of the kids we’d met here, very industrious, almost ambitious, and always thinking. Of Polish decent, he embraced his heritage, began using his Polish name, Maciek, and wrote songs in Polish for some of the bands he performed with. We saw him at shows and have always kept up with what he was up to. His teen years were filled with an inordinate amount of turmoil. He was always looking at his watch and running late for his record store job, his newspaper route, his job at the supermarket or for band practice. Through sheer will, he managed to escape Manitowoc and has nearly completed putting himself through Architecture school. We photographed Matt several times over the years. All that he’s been through and his various experiments with constructing his identity makes for pictures about the complexity of human experience and about youth all at once. © J. Shimon & J. Lindemann 1998 |