Igor Mattio

Photography

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PhotoGraffiate – 1989-1995

There is a word I keep returning to: photograffiate — photographs that have been written on, drawn over, claimed. Not in the vandal’s sense, though the impulse isn’t entirely different. The graffiti writer treats the wall as a surface waiting to be inhabited. I did something similar, but the surface was photographic paper — and

Shifting Focus

July 2025 Skin and Under kept me busy for almost two years. A complex project, not only for the practical challenges, but above all for the doubts I carried within myself. Legitimacy? Not the right word, perhaps. Right is closer to what I was taking on—portraying my subjects in moments of intimacy, when their defenses

2025: A Photographic Journey

January-March 2025 The journey has ended, but the images remain.What began as an exploration of youth, masculinity, and silence unfolded into something far more intimate. In March, I completed two intense shoots—one featuring a pair of twins (technically triplets, though the third was absent), shaped by a background of strict homophobia. Their gestures, at first

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