Matthew Prescott is a painter, author, activist, and photographer.

While Prescott’s paintings explore the relationship between the body and constructed space using architecture, distance, and composition to shape quiet moments of human presence, his photography, by contrast, attempts to strip away that space, turning its attention to the intimacy of the face and the subtle expressions that emerge when little else remains.

Prescott’s cookbook, Food Is The Solution: What To Eat To Save The World (Macmillan/Flatiron Books, 2018) is a hybrid narrative nonfiction book that blends original photography, voice, research, design, reported storytelling, and recipes into a broader cultural argument about food and sustainability. And his writing on social issues has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Barron’s, Fortune, and many others.

Prescott lives in coastal New Hampshire with his son, dog, eight chickens, and his wife — the New York Times-bestselling novelist Lara Prescott.