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Matt Mahurin
Matt Mahurin (b. January 31, 1959 in Los Angeles, California) is an American artist, film director and music video director.

Matt Mahurin is an American illustrator, photographer and film director. Mahurin's illustrations appear in Time,  Newsweek, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Forbes, and The New York Times. Mahurin's work as a photo essayist have dealt with issues such as homelessness, people with AIDS, the Texas prison system, abortion clinics, Nicaragua, Haiti and Belfast. His extensive work directing music videos since 1986 have resulted in working with U2, Tracy Chapman and many other popular music performers.

Photographs by Mahurin, including Clemmons Prison, Texas (1985), Texas Prison (1988), Woman's Face in Darkness (1989) and Paris (1984) are included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mahurin created the controversial photo-illustration of O. J. Simpson for the June 27, 1994 cover of Time Magazine. The original photograph was taken by the Los Angeles Police Department and used by Mahurin as the source material for the photo-illustration. Both Mahurin and Time were criticized for allegedly darkening the face of O.J. Simpson to intentionally make him appear more sinister. In a 2006 interview with CBS News, Mahurin stated that he works in dark imagery and that darkening the image was his own interpretation. Regarding the controversy, Mahurin stated that he both would not wish the same on anyone, but at the same time would not trade the experience for anything.

Mahurin has a reputation for photographing himself and manipulating his own likeness in his commercial photo-illustration work. Examples of his own face appearing on magazine covers are the November 29, 2003 cover of Time Magazine, with Mahurin as Sigmund Freud, the March 14, 1994 cover of Time, with himself as a caveman and the May 17, 2004 Time cover where Mahurin posed and photographed himself as an Abu Ghraib prisoner.

Awards
 Film and Video 

 Photography and Photo-Illustration 
 * Eastman Kodak Award for Lifetime Achievement - MPVA Music Video Awards (2004)
 * Best American Independent Feature - Hamptons International Film Festival, for Mugshot (1996)
 * MTV Video Music Award for Best Post-Modern Video,  Orange Crush by R.E.M (1989)


 * Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography "Cover Photograph of the year" for January 1998 cover of Rolling Stone of Marilyn Manson, and "Cutting Edge Photo Illustration" (1998)
 * Art Directors Club, Merit Award for Feature Spread Illustration published by The Village Voice, "Unsafe: Why Gay Men Are Having Risky Sex" (1996)

Feature Films
Director
 * Feel (2006)
 * I Like Killing Flies (2003)
 * Mugshot (1996)

Photographs'
 * Siesta (1987)

Short Films
Director
 * The Reality of Hunger in New York City (2008)
 * H2 Uh-Oh (2007)

Television
Director 
 * Imagining America "Tribe"
 * Alive TV "Hammer" (segment)

Videography
Director


 * Alice in Chains- Angry Chair (1992)
 * Better Than Ezra - Rosealia (1995)
 * Bon Jovi - Hey God (2007)
 * Blind Melon- Dear ol' Dad (1993)
 * Bush - Little Things (1995)
 * Bush - Everything Zen (1994)
 * Cowboy Junkies- Sweet Jane
 * Def Leppard- All I want is everything (1996)
 * Def Leppard - Stand up (1993)
 * Hole - Gold Dust Woman (1996)
 * Donna Lewis - Without Love (2005)
 * Lou Reed - Hookywooky (2007)
 * Melissa Etheridge- Happy X-Mas (1994)
 * New Kids on the Block - If you go away (1992)


 * Metallica -  The Unforgiven (1991
 * Metallica - King Nothing (1996)
 * Metallica - The Unforgiven II (1998)
 * Peter Murphy - The Scarlet Thing in You(1995)
 * Our Lady Peace -  Clumsy (1998)
 * Paul Westerberg - Runaway Wind (2005)
 * Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street (1986)
 * Peter Gabriel -  Red Rain (1986)
 * Peter Gabriel - Come talk to me
 * Corey Glover - April Rain (2005)
 * Queensryche - Another Rainy Night (1991)
 * R.E.M. -  Orange Crush (1988)
 * Scorpions - Alien Nation (2007)
 * Skid Row - Into Another (2005)


 * Skid Row - My Enemy (2005)
 * Soul Asylum -  Misery (1995)
 * Soundgarden- The Day I tried to live (1995)
 * Sting - Gabriel's Message (1987)
 * The Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels
 * Therapy? - Die laughing (1994)
 * Tom Waits - Hold on (1999)
 * Tom Waits - What's he building (2007)
 * Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (1988)
 * U2 -Love is Blindness (1993)
 * Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle (1993)
 * Urge Overkill - Take a Walk (1993)

Photography Credits
Most Notable
 * Tracey Chapman - self titled album, cover
 * Marilyn Manson - Rolling Stone Cover, January issue, 1998
 * Tom Waits - Mule Variations cover, 2000
 * Tom Waits - Alice, Cover and concept (2002)