Chronicles: Stories Behind the Lens of Igor MattioChronicles

CUBA — Skin and Grace – Becoming

7月 23, 2026

The Becoming is a separate longitudinal work that emerged during the production of Gazing...

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.

意味の空白

6月 3, 2026

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

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.

中庭

5月 12, 2026

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

文化的場地としての身体

4月 3, 2026

I photograph bodies. But not the way that phrase usually lands. A body is...

Presence, No Compromise

1月 18, 2026

I work with the body.Not to provoke, not to decorate, but to stay close...

安全を美学に｜現代写真――形式と恐れ

12月 28, 2025

Bored of Very Serious Photography? Nothing on your skin. A reflection on safety as...

CUBA — Skin and Grace – Gazing Soft

12月 6, 2025

SKIN, and Grace — Episode IGazing Soft Book and Film I arrived in Cuba...

未来の廃墟の考古学：原初のデジタル・プロレタリアート

9月 3, 2025

Archaeology of Future Ruins The Proto-Digital Proletariat Sometimes I think my models belong to...

映画？どう始まったのか.

8月 10, 2025

A Film? How the Idea Began The idea didn’t come from a storyboard or...

Possession. Now He’s Mine (Only for the Shot)

5月 16, 2025

A meditation on the unspoken power struggle between photographer and model, exploring how attraction,...

裸か、ヌードか？目指すのはキアロスクーロ——チッペンデールズじゃない

5月 12, 2025

Naked or Nude? Chiaroscuro, Not Chippendales Recently, I found myself in a familiar debate...

AI Vs Real Connection

5月 6, 2025

AI vs. Mosquito Massacre Recently, I exchanged a few comments about AI-generated images—after I...

嘘をついて：うまくいかなかった一枚

5月 3, 2025

Tell Me Lies I don’t call myself a photographer.I use a camera, but not...

Portrait of a young man in natural light, capturing a fleeting moment of vulnerability and quiet self-awareness.

儚い美.

4月 23, 2025

The Ephemeral Beauty: Capturing What Time Cannot Hold Ephemeral Beauty: A question I frequently...

脆さのパラドックス：見せる者／見せられる者

4月 4, 2025

The Paradox:In the creative process, particularly when arranging nude models in a composition, I...

花序：アンドレスとアガベ.

1月 28, 2025

We were in the living room of my quarters at Suesca, in the old...

The Fallen One

11月 10, 2024

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

布は皮膚、水は光.

1月 17, 2024

We had been shooting since morning, the kind of relentless sun that leached the...

The Unspoken Narrative: Photography as Dialogue

12月 27, 2023

I often forget the plot of a book or a movie just a few...

クロニクル