Igor Mattio

Photography

Chronicles

Two young men in a ruined coastal belvedere, Santa Marta, Colombia. Black and white silver gelatin print. One figure stands in the background facing a arched opening, looking upward, body relaxed and unaware. The other stands in the foreground at the edge of a second arch, one hand resting on the crumbling stone, looking directly into the camera. The structure around them is decaying — peeling ceiling, worn tile floor, eroded concrete. Through the openings: sea, mountains, a distant city. Neither figure performs for the lens. The light is even, the stillness absolute.

The Semantic Void

A reflection on what happens when the human body resists the categories that contemporary...

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Black and white photograph of six young men in swimwear gathered in the stone-paved courtyard of a Colombian finca, surrounded by whitewashed walls and tropical vegetation. Some stand, some crouch or sit. Their backs are mostly turned to the camera. The atmosphere is tense and unresolved.

The Courtyard

During a four-day shoot, something was said — aimed at the only woman in...

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The Fallen One

The tattoo, a depiction of Lucifer’s fall from the eye of God, seemed to...

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