A 1999 graduate of Old Dominion University, Matt Artz has worked as a
photographer on North Carolina’s Outer Banks since 2000.
His work currently appears every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday in
The Coastland Times newspaper and is featured regularly in numerous other
publications, including ripCurrent Magazine, The North Beach Sun, The
Chowan Herald, and The Edge Outer Banks magazine.
An exhibit entitled “Covering the Monument to a Century of Flight,”
featuring the photography of Matt Artz, was shown at Glenn Eure’s Ghost
Fleet Gallery in Nags Head, NC for nearly a year in 2004.

Career highlights to date include:
-covering appearances by President Georgee W. Bush, actor John Travolta,
and astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong at the 2003 First Flight
Centennial Celebration at Wright National Memorial
-shooting 2003 X-Games world champion skaateboarder Bucky Lasek in Nags
Head two weeks before Lasek captured gold for the second year in row in
Los Angeles, Calif. in 2004;
-covering Jesse James, of the Discovery Channel’s Monster Garage, and his
successful flight of a flying car in Currituck, NC in 2005;
-covering the Outer Banks Pro surfing conntest in 2002 and 2004, the 2002
United States Boomerang Team Trials, and the 2002 Miss Outer Banks
Hawaiian Tropic contest;
-covering the 9/11 aftermath at Ground Zeero in New York in October 2001;
-and shooting hundreds of musicians in cooncert, including Michelle Branch,
The Beach Boys, The Temptations, 2 Live Crew, Clutch, Afroman, Stanley
Jordan, Carbon Leaf, Phunk Junkees, The Wailers, Aaron Tippin, Lee
Greenwood, The Connells, Reverend Horton Heat, and guitar legend
Hubert Sumlin.

With Jessie James
Photo by Linda Cain

With Neil Armstrong
Photo by Anthony Miliusis

With Ghost Fleet Gallery owner/artist Glenn Eure,
2003 Icarus International Art Exhibition opening reception
Photo by Chip Artz