In the 1980’s when Matthew was in high school in rural North Carolina, he took a photography class – ’real photography’ – a darkroom, red lights, film, and the titillating smell of the chemicals involved. After graduation, the normal demands of life soon followed – get a job, make a gainful income (whatever that means), being a ‘regular’ person. Matthew went on to become an ordained minister in the fundamentalist Baptist movement while working jobs and going to a local Bible college. In 1996 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biblical Studies with a minor in pastoral counseling. In 1998 he completed the Master of Arts in Ministry degree. After serving for several years in the pastorate, he began to be disillusioned by the fundamentalist movement and began to ‘back away’ – slowly.… After finally leaving the active ministry and church altogether, in 2016 he got the photography ‘bug’ once again. He saved enough money to buy a micro four thirds camera and began his ‘grown up’ photography journey.
Since then Matt has completed his photography education at the New York Institute of Photography, completing the Certificate in Portrait Photography as well as the Certificate in Photojournalism. He has won several international competitions and has been featured in online magazines for his fetish/adult conceptual photographic art and portraiture. Matthew’s photographs must be studied, read then digested- their underlying meaning or message is not always obvious. Take for example the three photograph series ‘Vanity of Men’: men must always perform, “the bigger, the better” is most men’s philosophy, especially when it comes to dick size. Most men “fake it until they make it” even if it means stuffing a fake cock in your underwear and posting a photo or video to Instagram, bouncing and shaking it for all the world to see. We are programmed to PRETEND (just like when we were little boys) to have a HUGE dick instead of the real, average, (or below average for most of us) God-given meat stick you were born with… Enjoy- RattHouse Studios
Matt Sarratt Art : ratthousestudios.com
I call it what it is male genital mutilation and should be treated with the same outrage as female genital mutilation. Equally means treated the same.
Matt Sarratt’s work is strange and confronting but it’s erotic. In the photos shown above, the large, hairy male body, with its “ordinary” dick and clamped nipples, turns me on in a weird way, as do all the photos on the Ratthouse Studios website, including the brutal circumcision in the “A Cruel God” photo shown above, along with the other sado-masochistic interactions shown in the “Explicit Works” section on the Sarratt website. I want to stick my tongue into the hole in stretched foreskin and tickle the tip of the prick before the skin is snipped off! Maybe there is some precum, the victim experiencing a masochistic arousal! And I love the Christ and Magdalene series, especially the “Passion of Christ” with his beautiful erection. The colours in the “Nudes” photos are beautiful, so dark and Mexican. I don’t know, I like this work very much. Thank you, Seb.