Matt Baer
Photo by Purna Venugopalan
Matt Baer is a writer and community builder interested in photography, people, and the modern networks that connect us.
He has spent his career building social web and digital publishing platforms from the ground-up, like Write.as, along with online communities like Writing Exchange. Offline, he creates a space for NYC-area photographers of all skill levels with NYC Photo Stroll, and hosts regular writing nights in the Lower East Side.
He runs Musing Studio, a software studio, and is based in New York City.
exhibitions
- Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. October 24, 2025
- NYC Photo Stroll Exhibition № 1. RAM Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. October 27–November 16, 2023
- Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. March 3, 2023
- SHIM/Photography. Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY. August 9–28, 2022
photography publications
- NYC Photo Stroll Zine № 2. New York City. May 2023
- NYC Photo Stroll Zine № 1. New York City. December 2022
published essays
- Building a More Privacy-Centric Web. Glimmer, May 2020 (archived)
- WriteFreely: Start a blog, build a community. opensource.com, February 2019
talks
- Federated Blogging with WriteFreely. FOSDEM, Brussels, BE. February 2025
- Federated Blogging with WriteFreely. NLUUG voorjaarsconferentie, Utrecht, NL. May 2024
- Federated Blogging with WriteFreely. ActivityPub Conf, Prague, CZ. September 2019