BIO
Matteo Capone was born in Rome in 1997. In 2020 he graduated in Photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Rome. In 2021 he started one year of Fellowship with ParalleloZero photojournalism agency (Milan). In 2022 he attended the Contemporary Photojournalism Master's degree at Officine Fotografiche (Rome) and he was selected by Fondazione Studio Marangoni (Florence) for a workshop curated by Michele Borzoni, TerraProject. In the same year he was chosen by Leica Camera Italia for the Roma ChilometroZero project.
A selection of his main recognition includes: collective exhibitions in MAXXI, FSM Gallery, Fotofestival Lenzburg, Photometria Festival, FotoLeggendo, Green&Blue Festival, PH21 Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, Kommunale Galerie, Trieste Photo Days, Sifest, Forum Austriaco di Cultura; finalist of ISPA 2022, winner of the Photometria Awards 2022, honorable mention of the International Photography Awards 2021, finalist of the BUP Book Awards 2021, special mention of the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2021; publications on NPhotography, Seipersei, National Geographic Italia, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Eki Magazine, Perimetro, Phroom, Landscape Stories etc.
STATEMENT
Contemporary author who uses detail, landscape and documentary photography as artistic expression and visual language. He's mainly focused on current and social issues in which the environment is the protagonist. This one is intended as a place where relations between territory and human activity emerge.
Indeed, his visual research begins with a project on the Italian industrial landscape, compromised and wounded in the course of history by human actions. Subsequently the landscape investigation turns on geomorphological questions and their resulting effects. An example is the depopulation of small villages, in which the relationship between absence and human presence manifest itself in the form of lived traces. Recently he covered positive industrial issues, where work, choices and solutions are based on circular economy and sustainability.
The interest in the territory born from the need to slow down, pause and immerse himself in contexts that fill a sense of emptiness. He was born and he's been growing up in a complicated historical period where the climate emergency creates, especially in young people, an anxiety to live with. His generation and subsequent generations are into this topic and, as a photographer, he feels the duty and desire to make a contribution.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
RETI INVISIBILI - Street Photography, F-Stop Magazine (online)
SOLO - Same Same But Different: Exclusion, Perimetro, Base, Milano
ROMA VECCHIA - Young Advocates Open Call, Format Festival, Quad Gallery, Derby
SOLO - Looking for the Light, curated by Photometria Festival, Esp+ Gallery, Thessaloniki
MINDSCAPES - Black and White, F-Stop Magazine (online)
PUROSOLE - Climate Change Italia, curated by Contrasto, MAXXI, Rome
SOLO - Looking for the Light, curated by Photometria Festival, Melanithros Art Space, Athens
FROM WASTE TO GOOD - Note di lavoro, FSM Gallery, Florence
MINDSCAPES - Resources 2.0, Fotofestival Lenzburg, Lenzburg
SOLO - Looking for the Light, Photometria Festival, Ioannina
PCCB - FotoLeggendo, Officine Fotografiche, Rome
PUROSOLE - Climate Change Italia, Festival Green&Blue, Milan
SOLO - Personality: Contemporary Portraiture, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
SIN - Ways of Living, Climate Project, curated by Then There Was Us, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
MIINDSCAPES - New Talents, curated by Photographic Exploration Project, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin
SOLO - Year Book, Shutter Hub (online)
PCCB - Open Theme, F-Stop Magazine (online)
2021:
SOLO - You/th, Kobo Studio, Rome
RETI INVISIBILI - Tales of Unwritten, Trieste Photo Days, Trieste
SIN - Fotografia a Sostegno del Pianeta, curated by Alessandro Curti, Sifest, Savignano sul Rubicone
SIN - Environmental Alterations, curated by Loosen Art, MillePiani, Rome
SIN - On Climate Change, Forum Austriaco di Cultura, Rome
SOLO - Favorite Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch (online)
SIN - Landscape, F-Stop Magazine (online)
SIN - Four Degrees: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Change, Humble Arts Foundation (online)
STAND-BY NIGHT - Empty Streets, Art Doc Magazine (online)
Confinement, dans l'Attente de la Renaissance, Open Eye Magazine (online)
SIN - Hidden Histories, In Conversation With (online)
AWARDS
2023:
SOLO - Open Call - finalist of The Fc'Diary Photo
FROM WASTE TO GOOD - Storia Fotografica, finalist of the ISPA Awards 2022
SOLO - Looking for the Light, winner of the Photometria Awards 2022
SIN - Nature, Environment and Perspectives, special mention of the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2021
PUROSOLE - Una Transizione Sostenibile, second place of Gruppo Italia Energia
SOLO - One Shot - Our Times: Isolation, honorable mention of the International Photography Awards 2021
SIN - Blow Up Press, finalist of the BUP Book Award
SIN - Nature, Environment and Perspectives, special mention of the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2020
PUBLICATIONS
2023:
ZeroFeedBack, The Annihilation of Space and Time
SIN - Il Fotografo, N Photography 116
FROM WASTE TO GOOD - Seipersei Books, ISPA
2022:
PCCB - Fotografia dell'Architettura, Sguardi Contemporanei
MINDSCAPES - Eki Magazine, Issue 02 Sunlight
PUROSOLE - National Geographic Italia, Green&Blue
PUROSOLE - La Repubblica, Green&Blue
PUROSOLE - La Stampa, Green&Blue
2021:
SIN - The Best Selected Book, Vol IV
MAGAZINES / PLATFORMS
2023:
FROM WASTE TO GOOD - Landscape Stories
LEGAMI - Esplorazioni Accessibili
2022:
ROMA VECCHIA - Best Selected Project (November)
RETI INVISIBILI - The Street Rover
2021:
RETI INVISIBILI - Zero Nine Magazine
STAND-BY NIGHT - Fotografia dell'architettura
2020: