I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.

- Mary Mattingly

I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking…

- Mary Mattingly

Ideally I envision a future where people are supporting themselves and each other using the things we already have - perhaps a place where one can fu…

- Mary Mattingly

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more pe…

- Mary Mattingly

I wanted to make a site where I wasn't mailing physical things to people, but I was still giving people things, and I would have this relationship wi…

- Mary Mattingly

You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.

- Mary Mattingly

If everyone used the Internet to share the things they created themselves, what would that look like? I think it makes objects special again. I guess…

- Mary Mattingly

We're at a point in time in our history of humanity where the systems we use for mass production have to be reevaluated, and it first struck me that …

- Mary Mattingly