title: Matt Mahurin
text: # Matt Mahurin
  
  Matt Mahurin (Santa Cruz, 31 gennaio 1959) è un illustratore, fotografo e regista statunitense; i suoi lavori sono stati utilizzati da riviste quali TIME, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Forbes e The New York Times.
  
  ## Biografia
  
  Mahurin opera principalmente come fotografo, ma è molto attivo anche come regista nel campo dei video musicali, avendo lavorato negli anni con U2, Def Leppard, Queensrÿche, Metallica, Tracy Chapman, Tom Waits, R.E.M., Alice in Chains e molti altri artisti popolari.
  
  ## Riconoscimenti
  
  * Film e videoclip
     * 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 dei R.E.M. (1989)
  * Fotografie e illustrazioni
     * Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography "Cover Photograph of the year" & "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)
  
  ## Videografia
  
  * 10,000 Maniacs — "What's the Matter Here?" (1987)
  * Alice in Chains — "Angry Chair" (1992)
  * Alice in Chains — "No Excuses" (1994)
  * Better Than Ezra — "Rosealia" (1995)
  * Body Count — "There Goes The Neighborhood" (1992)
  * Bon Jovi — "Hey God" (1996)
  * Bonnie Raitt — "Something To Talk About" (1991)
  * Blind Melon — "Dear Ol' Dad" (1993)
  * Bush — "Everything Zen" (1994)
  * Bush — "Little Things" (1995)
  * Tracy Chapman — "Fast Car" (1988)
  * Cher — "Save Up All Your Tears" (1991)
  * Cowboy Junkies — "Sweet Jane" (1991)
  * Def Leppard — "Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)" (1993)
  * Def Leppard — "All I Want Is Everything" (1996)
  * Disturbed — "Sound of Silence" (2015)
  * Melissa Etheridge — "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" (1994)
  * John Fogerty — "Eye of the Zombie" (1986)
  * Peter Gabriel — "Mercy Street" (1986)
  * Peter Gabriel — "Red Rain" (1986)
  * Peter Gabriel — "Come Talk to Me" (1993)
  * Corey Glover — "April Rain" (1998)
  * Hole — "Gold Dust Woman" (1996)
  * Donna Lewis — "Without Love" (1996)
  * Sarah McLachlan — "Building a Mystery" (1997) (uncredited)
  * Metallica — "The Unforgiven" (1991)
  * Metallica — "King Nothing" (1996)
  * Metallica — "The Unforgiven II" (1998)
  * Mötley Crüe — "Primal Scream" (1991)
  * Mötley Crüe — "Home Sweet Home '91" (1991)
  * Peter Murphy — "The Scarlet Thing in You" (1995)
  * New Kids on the Block — "If You Go Away" (1992)
  * Our Lady Peace — "Clumsy" (1998)
  * Martin Page — "In the House of Stone and Light" (1994)
  * Queensrÿche — "Empire" (1990)
  * Queensrÿche — "Best I Can" (1990)
  * Queensrÿche — "Silent Lucidity" (1990)
  * Queensrÿche — "Another Rainy Night (Without You)" (1991)
  * R.E.M. — "Orange Crush" (1988)
  * Rush — "The Pass" (1989)
  * Lou Reed — "What's Good" (1992)
  * Lou Reed — "Hookywooky" (1996)
  * Scorpions — "Alien Nation" (1993)
  * Silversun Pickups — "The Royal We" (2010)
  * Skid Row — "My Enemy" (1995)
  * Skid Row — "Into Another" (1995)
  * Soraya — "Suddenly" (1996)
  * Soul Asylum — "Misery" (1995)
  * Soundgarden — "Outshined" (1991)
  * Soundgarden — "The Day I Tried to Live" (1994)
  * Sting — "Gabriel's Message" (1987)
  * The Black Crowes — "She Talks to Angels" (1991)
  * Therapy? — "Die Laughing" (1994)
  * Tom Waits — "Hold On" (1999)
  * Tom Waits — "What's He Building" (1999)
  * Tom Waits — "Hell Broke Luce" (2011)
  * U2 — "Love Is Blindness" (1993)
  * Ugly Kid Joe — "Cat's in the Cradle" (1993)
  * Ugly Kid Joe — "Busy Bee" (1993)
  * Urge Overkill — "Take a Walk" (1993)
  * Paul Westerberg — "Runaway Wind" (1993)
  
  ## Fotografo
  
  * The BoDeans — Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams copertina, 1986
  * Tracy Chapman — Tracy Chapman copertina, 1988
  * The Ramones — Brain Drain, copertina, 1989
  * Ozzy Osbourne — No More Tears, copertina, 1991
  * Joe Satriani — The Extremist, copertina, 1992
  * Marilyn Manson — Rolling Stone, copertina, gennaio 1998
  * Tom Waits — Mule Variations, copertina, 2000
  * Tom Waits — Alice, copertina, 2002
  * Joan as Policewoman— To Survive, copertina, 2008
  * Muse — Drones, copertina, 2015
  