Chloe Dewe Mathews

Chloe Joan Dewe Mathews (born 1982) is an English documentary photographer based in St Leonards-on-Sea. She is "best known for ambitious documentary projects that can take years of preparation." She photographed each site at dawn, the time that most of the men were executed; close to the date on which they occurred; and from around the same vantage that they were shot. published as a book in 2014 and exhibited in various places.

Dewe Mathews completed an artist's residency at the Verbier 3-D Foundation, Bagnes, Switzerland in 2016 on the topic of the so-called Year Without a Summer, a period of severe climate deterioration. This provided the backdrop for Mary Shelley when writing Frankenstein (1818) whilst staying in the same area. Dewe Mathews' series made there, In Search of Frankenstein, is concerned with contemporary environmental and social issues via the themes of Shelley's novel.

She spent five years making Thames Log, a series about the variety of peoples' relationship with the River Thames.

Publications Publications by Dewe Mathews Shot at Dawn. Madrid: Ivorypress, 2014. . With texts by Geoff Dyer, Hew Strachan, Helen McCarthy and Paul Bonaventura. Sunday Service. Tate Modern and You. London: Tate, 2014. With texts by Synthia Griffin and Phil Stokes. In Search of Frankenstein – Mary Shelley's Nightmare. Baden, Switzerland: Kodoji, 2018. . Dewe Mathews' photographs with reproductions of The Geneva Notebook, the first half of Mary Shelley's original manuscript for Frankenstein. Caspian: The Elements. New York City: Aperture; Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, 2018. . With essays by Morad Montazami, Sean O'Hagan and Arnold van Bruggen. Thames Log. London: Loose Joints; Bristol: Martin Parr Foundation, 2021. . With a text by Marina Warner.

Publications with contributions by Dewe Mathews Conflict: Time: Photography. London: Tate, 2014. . Edited by Simon Baker and Shoair Mavlian. Exhibition Catalogue.

Exhibitions Solo exhibitions Sunday Service, Tate Modern, London, 2014. Shot at Dawn, Stills, Edinburgh, 2014; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2015–2016; Ivorypress, Madrid, 2016. Congregation, Bosse & Baum, London, 2015. In Search of Frankenstein, British Library, London, 2018. Tjames Log, Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, 2021

Significant group exhibitions Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London, 2014–2015. Included Shot at Dawn.

Awards 2011: British Journal of Photography International Photography Award 2014: Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University 2016: Vic Odden Award, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK

Collections Dewe Mathews' work is held in the following permanent public collections: British Council Collection: 4 prints from Shot at Dawn (as of 25 April 2018) Herbert Art Gallery and Museum (acquired with assistance from Art Fund): 2 prints from Shot at Dawn (as of 25 April 2018) Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust (acquired with assistance from the Contemporary Art Society): 3 prints from Shot at Dawn (as of 25 April 2018)