Matthew Besinger is a fine art photographer based in Los Angeles. His work searches for an American mythology. He has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Besinger's first project, "Annex the Desert", was completed after years of traveling the Sonoran Desert. Working at night and using only ambient light, the long exposures empty the desert of people and fill it instead with hidden vistas, unseen objects, and fields of color. The landscapes raise questions about our abstraction of the West and its role as an unlikely home. A book, "Dead Desert Night", was produced for his first solo show in New York City. The project was nominated for the New York Photo Awards and won several International Photography Awards in London. The work was also selected by Humble Arts and Review Sante Fe.

Born in Chicago, Besinger received a Bachelor of the Arts in Poetry from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Besinger is curently using his 8x10 to shoot an American Book of Days.