Santa Barbara-based Matt Walla has photographed five books on California architecture, design, and place. His most recent, American Riviera, published by GOST Books in London, is his first fine art monograph. It was made on foot over seven years walking at dusk through the downtown neighborhoods of Santa Barbara and photographed entirely on large format 4x5" film.

He also photographed three volumes for Rizzoli documenting the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture of Santa Barbara and Montecito: Casa del Herrero: The Romance of Spanish Colonial, on George Washington Smith’s National Historic Landmark estate; Spanish Colonial Style, on the work of architects James Osborne Craig and Mary McLaughlin Craig; and Santa Barbara: At Home in Paradise, with author Douglas Woods, a survey of Santa Barbara houses in the period revival tradition from 1838 to the present. The Steedman Silver, published by Tailwater Press, records the handmade silver of George Fox Steedman.