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Matteo Di Giovanni

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Bio
Born in 1980. In 1999, he moves to Rome where he gets a degree in Philosophy and begins
working in the photography field. In the mid-2000s he decided to settle down in London, where he definitively began to work as a photographer for magazines such as The Economist, Red Pepper, Slowfood Magazine, Hesamag among others. He also works as an assistant for Jeff Lipsky and Simon Roberts and they will both influence his way of working. From 2010 he studied Photography at the Westminster University of London, where he achieved a Master of Arts, with a body of work about Bosnian national identity 20 years after the Balkan War under the guidance of Max Houghton and David Campany. In 2012, he moved to Milan, where he started working on long-term projects related to the landscape and our perception of it, the interaction between humans and space and the road-trip as gnoseological experience. His work deals with personal, intimate, social and anthropological issues, focusing on the themes of memory, identity and human limitations. His landscape photographs reveal a tension between nature and civilization.
He is the author of four monographs, "I wish the world was even" (2019), "Blue Bar" (2020) and "I had to shed my skin" published in May 2022. This loose trilogy has been published by Artphilein Editions, Lugano (CH). His last body of work - "True Places Never Are" - published by The Ice Plant in 2024, was presented in Paris during the Paris Photo Fair in November 2024. This body of work takes shape from a re-thinking and re-editing, together with Mike Slack, Tricia Gabriel and Giulia Zorzi, of colour images taken in the last decade. Prior to that, the work was exhibited in a solo show at Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin in June 2023.
At the moment, he is working on a commission about climate change along the delta of the Po
river in North-eastern Italy, which is seen as a borderland. It will be an image-text experiment, with the written part curated by Italian writer Carlo Ruggiero. The book, meant to be published by Artphilein Edition at the beginning of 2027, will be accompanied by a show and presented in Switzerland in Summer 2027.