“My photography has gravitated towards trying to understand relationships between state power and its citizens,” says artist Matthew Connors. This study began at Zuccotti Park during the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement and ultimately took him to Cairo for the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. His collection of work from Egypt, "Fire in Cairo: Revisiting the Revolution in Egypt" is being honored by the International Center of Photography with an Infinity Award, in the category of Art.

Connors describes his work as existing between the worlds of reportage, surrealism and poetry. By blurring categories, and even altering photographs, Connors offers us a broader understanding of complex political situations.