Matteo de Mayda (Treviso, 1984) is a Venice-based photographer represented by Contrasto, focused on reportage and social and environmental causes. His visual research focuses on documentary photography and portraits, focused on reportage and social and environmental causes. He participated in several exhibitions, including at United Nations (Geneva, Switzerland, 2013) at Venice Biennale of Architecture (Venice, Italy, 2016) and Head On Photo Festival (Sidney, Australia, 2020). In 2019 he published “Era Mare”, a book about the high water in Venice, whose proceeds went totally to the shopkeepers who needed help. Awarded among the winners of the “REFOCUS” call by MIBACT – Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities for his work on Covid-19. He was selected by ARTRIBUNE magazine as the best young Italian photographer of 2020 and in 2021 he was selected among the emerging authors of the European Union’s “Futures Photography” program.
Venice, Italy
Era Mare. bruno. 2019
2021. FUTURES 2021 talent
2020. Best young photographer of the year, according to Artribune
2020. Winner of REFOCUS award by MiBACT with La Triennale di Milano and MUFOCO
2020. Finalist at the Head On Photo Awards
2020. Winner at Inner Outlook
2019. Finalist at the National Geographic Prize (Cortona on the Move Festival)
2008 and 2014. First prize at the Bevilacqua La Masa
2021. MUFOCO, Milan (Italy)
2021. La Triennale, Milan (Italy)
2020. Lector in Fabula, Conversano (Italy)
2020. Photobook Week Aarhus (Denmark)
2020. Fotobok Festival, Oslo (Norway)
2020. Head On Photo Festival, Sydney (Australia)
2019-2020- The Gallery by Generali, Milan (Italy)
2019. La Fabbrica dello Zucchero, Rovigo (Italy)
2017. Gwangju Biennale (South Korea)
2017. Palazzo Santa Chiara, Rome (Italy)
2016. 15th Architecture Biennale, Venice (Italy)
2015. Museo dell’Università la Sapienza, Roma (Italy)
2014-2015. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (Italy)
2014. URP, Turin (Italy)
2014. National Architecture/Design Centre (Sweden)
2013. United Nations, Geneva (Switzerland)
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